The Witching Hour, Syd Moore
The Witching Hour, Syd Moore
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The Witching Hour

Author: Syd Moore

Narrator: Kristin Atherton

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Avon

Published: 09/12/2024


Synopsis

A chilling, haunting ghost story set in the modern day which delves into the real-life legend of a 19th-century sea witch… Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent séance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening visions. She tries to explain them away. But Alfie sees them too and Sarah believes that they have become the targets of a haunting attack. Convinced that the ghost is that of a 19th Century local witch, Sarah delves into local folklore and learns that the witch was thought to have been evil incarnate. Perfect for fans of , and . Previously published as The Drowning Pool in 2011

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elise on February 09, 2008

I actually quite enjoyed this book up until the very end, when I felt like the main female character just had some sort of weird personality seizure and did something that the character as you've come to know her just wouldn't have done. It just made it seem poorly written to me, like Ms. Rice decid......more

Goodreads review by Icey on October 31, 2021

It feels like a slow seduction. You felt the foreboding first. Vicious, poisonous, catastrophic…all mingled together, a darkness so black and deep. You felt the dizziness. A history brought you to various places, New Orleans, Amsterdam, France, Port-air-Prince. A history that was a secret itself. Ince......more

Goodreads review by RunForTheRoses on August 03, 2019

I got this book for Christmas that year. This was my first ever Anne Rice book, and it was about a year after Interview With A Vampire came out as a movie with Brad Pitt, Christian Slater and Tom Cruise. I was blown away people. If you like a story, like Gone With the Wind on crack, no seriously, ep......more

Goodreads review by Derek on August 01, 2009

One of my top 3 favorite novels of all time. Anne Rice gets a bad rap for being pure shlock, but what most people who haven't read her don't realize is that she is obsessed with history. She studies a particular time period, learns everything she can about it, and then creates characters and sticks......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on December 19, 2007

I FINALLY finished this. Good Lord, what a long winded mess this was. All the wordy history was boring but I stuck it out then ended up hating the ending! Why in the world to I keep reading Anne Rice?......more


Quotes

‘A stunning reinvention of the ghost story and an exploration of a 19th-century Essex witch hunt.’ ‘A goose-pimply old-fashioned ghost story.’ Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant and May series ‘Its vivid descriptions will leave even the toughest of souls with goose pimples.’