![]() ![]() Yes, Lewis has the David Warner part from The Omen. One foreshadows the murder of the detective leading the investigation into Naomi’s death. Mysterious children are seen, there are screams in the night, footsteps in the attic.Ī Welsh photographer, Lewis, who Charles can only describe in terms of cliche – alcohol, rugby, sheep farming, mines – shows the couple mysterious images which have appeared in his photographs of their house. ![]() On Christmas eve their four year old daughter, Naomi, disappears and is found murdered, horribly mutilated. Charles and his wife Laura (the first of many Don’t Look Now references without which the book would be stronger) are academics living in an old Victorian house in Cambridge. ![]() Naomi’s Room is narrated by Charles from the vantage of 1990, reflecting on the terrible events of Christmas 1970 and beyond. Here are two books, the ninth and latest supernatural/ghost novel from Jonathan Aycliffe, together with a reprint of his first ghost story dating from 1991, which address that question head on with very different results. One of the biggest questions facing an author of a haunted house story is, what can keep the protagonists in the house once the scary stuff really gets going. ![]()
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