The Influence
English
By (author): Ramsey Campbell
Now a major Netflix movie.
This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another. Publishers Weekly
Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death cant break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. Shes buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowans hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own age. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. if the child who takes her place in the family isnt Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. See more
This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another. Publishers Weekly
Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death cant break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. Shes buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowans hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own age. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. if the child who takes her place in the family isnt Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. See more
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