Darkest Room

'The dead are our neighbours everywhere here on the island, and you have to get used to it'. It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. Their remote idyll is soon shattered when a body is discovered, drowned off the rocks of Eel Point. As Joakim struggles to keep his sanity in the wake of the tragedy, the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him. The Westins have never been in the least superstitious, but to whom does their child call out in the night? Why is the barn door forever ajar? And what is the meaning of the sealed-off room and its sinister mementos? As the end of the year approaches, and the infamous winter storm moves in across Oland, Joakim begins to fear that the most spine-chilling story he's heard about Eel Point might indeed be true: that every Christmas the dead return to the manor house.

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