The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Sarah Penner
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Occult Fiction
- Price: Free
- File Size: 4 MB
- Publish Date: March 7, 2023
LENNA
Paris, Thursday, 13 February 1873
At an abandoned château on the wooded outskirts of Paris, a dark séance was
about to take place.
The clock read thirty-two minutes after midnight. Lenna Wickes,
spiritualist understudy, sat at an oval table draped in black linen. A gentleman
and his wife, the other séance participants, sat at the table with her. Their
faces were somber and their breathing uneasy. They were in what was once
the parlor of the dilapidated château, which had not been inhabited for a
hundred years. Behind Lenna, blood-colored paper peeled from the walls,
clusters of mildew hiding underneath.
If all went well tonight, the ghost they sought—that of a young woman,
murdered here in this very place—would soon appear.
Above them, something skittered. Mice, surely. Lenna had seen the
droppings when they walked in, the tiny black kernels scattered about the
baseboards. But then the skitter turned to a scratching noise and—was that a
thud she’d just heard? She fought off a chill, thinking that if ghosts did
indeed exist, this derelict château would be the place to find them.
She glanced quickly out the window into the darkness. Fat, wet
snowflakes, rare for Paris, drifted down around the château. They’d set a few
lanterns outside, and Lenna’s eyes fell on the metal gate at the front of the
estate, wrapped in dead ivy vines and quivering in its brace. Beyond it stood
dark, thick forest, the needly evergreens dusted with white.
The séance participants, called sitters, had gathered at midnight. The
parents of the victim—whom Lenna had met several days prior to this event
—arrived first. They were followed soon after by Lenna and her teacher, the
renowned medium who would lead tonight’s affair: Vaudeline D’Allaire.
All of them were dressed in black, and the energy in the room was neither
warm nor welcoming. As the parents waited in their seats, their movements
were nervous and abrupt: the father knocked over a brass candlestick and
apologized profusely. Lenna, opening her notebook from across the table,
couldn’t blame him. They were all anxious, and Lenna had wiped her damp
palms on her gown a dozen times already.
No one wanted to spend this agonizing hour under Vaudeline’s guidance.
The price of admission was terribly high, and that wasn’t accounting for the
francs she required up front.
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