The Haunting of Moscow House: The elegant gothic horror tale, new for 2024

di Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (Autore)

Saskia Maarleveld (Narratore)

HarperVoyager, 2024

In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family's long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous – and deadly – to remember. It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva's ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought. Eager to escape it and their unwelcome new landlords, Irina and Lili find jobs with the recently arrived American Relief Administration, meant to ease the post-revolutionary famine in Russia. For the sisters, the ARA provides much-needed food and employment, as well as a chance for sensible Irina to help those less fortunate and artistic Lili to express herself for a good cause. It might just lead them to love, too. But at home, the spirits of their deceased family awaken, desperate to impart what really happened to them during the Revolution. Soon one of the officials living in the house is found dead. Was his death caused by something supernatural, or by someone all too human? And are Irina and Lili and their family next? Only unearthing the frightening secrets of Moscow House will reveal all. But this means the sisters must dig deep into a past no one in Russia except the dead are allowed to remember. As the Goliteva sisters delve deeper into the occult world, they find themselves entangled in a web of historical secrets and ghostly whispers. The once top mansion of Moscow, now a haunting relic of the 20th century, becomes a chilling stage for their quest for truth. For fans of Katherine Arden (The Winter of the Witch), Sophie Keetch (Morgan Is My Name), Jennifer Saint (Atalanta), Luna Mcnamara (Psyche and Eros), and Claire North (The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August). HarperCollins 2024

• Autore: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
• Narratore: Saskia Maarleveld
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 12:26:12
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: HarperVoyager
• EAN: 9780008555665

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