5 Results with the "The Corpse Door" tag
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Environmental Memory, Psychical Research, and the Idea of Recorded Trauma The house replays its past. Old houses sometimes feel as though they are holding their breath. A staircase carries a tension that has nothing to do with creaking timber. A particular room feels heavy, charged, as though something once happened there and has not entirely settled. Whether one interprets this as imagination, suggestion, or…
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Vane let the silence settle after his last sentence. He did not blink. He did not fidget. He simply watched her over the rim of his teacup. “You won’t reach the village gates,” he said quietly, “unless you are under our protection.” Joyce did not look away. “I’ve managed thirty years without it.” “Thirty years of pickpockets and public order. This is not that.” He reached into the leather case at his side and withdrew a slim buff folder. It was unmarked. “There is a…-
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Case File No. 2: The Haunting of Brockthorn Abbey Before the war, before anyone was watching — Mabel Shirley is called to Brockthorn Abbey, where something ancient has awakened.-
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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 home 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,…
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A question I often get asked is: What software do you use to write your books? For me, the answer is novelWriter—an open-source writing tool developed by Veronica Berglyd Olsen. I wrote The Corpse Door using this software, and it has been an absolute game-changer for my writing process. Unlike traditional word processors, novelWriter is designed specifically for novelists. It keeps things lightweight, structured,…
![Chapter 5 – Finding Mabel [Easterwich] Cover](https://www.richardodell.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Finding-Mabel-Cover-1.png)