Ghost Story
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King Richard III sends Richard Taillour west to investigate a seized merchant vessel and the disappearance of two royal commissioners. What he finds aboard the Sint Marie in Axmouth harbour defies all record.
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Five children play a counting game on Bodmin Moor above Minions. When the rhyme turns cruel and one of them dies, the survivors bury what happened. Twenty years later, those old words return.
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At White Head Lighthouse, Thomas Darling keeps the lamp burning through a violent storm. Then a half-drowned stowaway brings a warning about his former berth, SS Strumble, an empty ship, recorded lost, and now carrying ticking machinery that can calculate the future, and perhaps alter the coming century
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About an 8-minute read or 14-minute listen. Lady Katherine Bulkeley grapples with a letter concerning the crown’s inquiry into her abbey, feeling the weight of change and uncertainty. In the chapel, she encounters the spirits of Henry and Rosamund, who share insights on legacy, authority, and love.