The Corpse Door
The Corpse Door is the first Novel in the Mabel Shirley Case Files.
“In a world divided by life and afterlife, only one voice can restore the balance.“
A devastating attack on an isolated farmhouse leaves a family slaughtered and a newborn orphaned. The quiet English village of Easterwich reels from the tragedy, but the truth lies far deeper than anyone suspects. Behind the horror, something ancient is stirring, an unseen force awakening through blood, magic and memory.
As the villagers search for answers, they uncover a terrifying secret: the return of an exiled ruler and her spectral slave army, the Tyrwraith. These otherworldly beings serve a darker will from beyond the veil, and at the heart of their power lies the Corpse Door, an ethereal passage between realms long thought dormant.
When the past begins to bleed into the present, a reluctant hero must confront forgotten lifetimes and reclaim powers he once wielded. With an old enemy rising again and the balance between worlds beginning to fail, what happened at that isolated farmhouse becomes only the beginning.
The Corpse Door is the first novel set in Richard Odell’s world of Easterwich and the prequel to Finding Mabel. It introduces the supernatural history, characters and forces that continue through the Easterwich stories and the Mabel Shirley mysteries.
It is a historical supernatural novel of hidden realms, reincarnation, English folklore and the uneasy boundary between the living and the dead
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About The Corpse Door
- Author: Richard Odell
- Type: Novel
- Series: Easterwich
- Series position: Book One
- Genre: Historical supernatural fiction
- Setting: Easterwich, England
- Principal themes: Reincarnation, memory, death, hidden realms and supernatural conflict
- Supernatural elements: The Corpse Door, the Tyrwraith, psychopomps and the Realm of the Three Hearts
- Related novel: Finding Mabel
- Related stories: The Mabel Shirley case files
- Explore more: Stories and novels by Richard Odell