novella · Gothic
The Wintering House
A companion arrives at a house where one room is always kept warm — for a mistress who is never at home, and whose name the servants will not say.
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Content note: Gothic dread — an eerie house and an inherited secret. Unsettling and sad, never graphic or gruesome.
A novella of Blackmoor. Agnes Thorne, a paid companion with no family of her own, takes a post at Wintering House on the high moor — to attend a mistress she is never permitted to meet, in a cold house with one room kept always, faithfully, warm.
First person, past tense; ornate and hushed. Eleven chapters. The full plan, and the secret of the warm room, is in the blueprint — for those who like the door open before they step through it.