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BUILDING THE INSPIRATIONS – AND AVOIDING THE PITFALLS

BUILDING THE INSPIRATIONS – AND AVOIDING THE PITFALLS

by Sarah Rayne | Feb 14, 2016 | charect, haunted houses, Sarah Rayne, settings for fiction

There’s a marvellous theme running through Benjamin Britten’s opera, Owen Wingrave, which is based on the Henry James’ story.  It’s, ‘Listen to the house.’  It’s something I’ve done for years. By ‘listen’ I don’t mean yomping round the Tower of London and thinking...

THE BIRTH OF A SERIES

by Sarah Rayne | Oct 5, 2015 | ancient legends, charect, ghost stories, ghosts, haunted houses, old diaries

The haunted house series, featuring Michael Flint and Nell West, was born several years ago, when I was asked to write and present a ghost-story evening at a local historic house.  There were so many legends attached to the place it was almost a question of...
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