Matilda's Retreat - The House from Hell

 

The house kept its secrets – until someone disturbed it

Alone and isolated on a windswept moor, the centuries’ old building had seen its fair share of owners and more than its quota of dark legends when Lynn Schofield and her husband visited their friends there. From the moment they cross the threshold, it’s clear there is something very wrong here. Behind the walls is a house unlike any other and the horrors it has witnessed are embedded in its very fabric, ready and waiting for the next victim.

Decades later, another couple own the now ruinous house. For Diana, her initial reluctance to move in soon takes a leap forward when she sees something that shouldn’t be there. But as major renovations proceed – and the library starts to reveal its secrets - her mounting fears prove to be only the beginning of her nightmare.

Soon, she will discover the legends of Matilda’s Retreat are not consigned to the annals of history, as her life changes forever.

 

There's something about a lonely house, situated on a bleak and windswept moor. It conjures up images of a kind of timeless desolation where everything is possible, only restricted by the limits of our imaginations. Seasons change, lives come and go, yet the elements continue. The cycles of wind, rain, sun, snow... Nature's routine, relentlessly repeating itself. Such is the landscape of this house. Its blessing and its curse is to remain there, standing sentinel, steeped in the imprint of all it has witnessed.

Until someone else moves in...

Matilda's Retreat

published by Crossroad Press on 10th February 2026

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