Three Rotten Dead Faces (The Nightmare Collections)

What do we really see when we see a ghost? A shadow of the past… or a warning of what’s still to come?Step inside three haunted houses and experience three very different ghost stories, where each tale opens a door that should have been left shut.In The Ghost of Shapley Hall, a young couple travels to a crumbling old mansion. Some say that the ghost of Georgette Shapley still haunts the building, while others insist that these tales were invented to scare the gullible. For Rachel and her boyfriend James, however, the ghostly presence at Shapley Hall will test their relationship to its limits – and expose long-buried secrets about their past.In The Ghost of Old Coal House, Arthur Foreman arrives in a quiet coastal town to visit a man named Walter Ward, who keeps sending disturbing manuscripts to Arthur’s employer in London. Are the manuscripts merely the product of a fevered mind, or do they hint at something hideous lurking in the shadows of Old Coal House?In The Haunting of Aldburn Park, a dying man sets out on one last journey to his ancestral home. Ahead of him, his loyal butler is sent to open the house up, but it soon becomes apparent that Aldburn Park was never really empty at all. What really happened to Lady Catherine Fetchford all those years ago, and can she force the living to finally listen to the cries of the dead?Three houses. Three hauntings. Three ghosts. Three rotten dead faces. And one truth: when the dead demand to be heard, they will go to any lengths – and when they want vengeance, nobody is safe. Read more