Darkwood Mysteries (11): The Hound at the Door

The Hound at the DoorWhy are former attendees of séances being hunted by a phantom hound and disappearing? Darkwood, Hobbs, and a reluctant Inspector Duggan pose as grieving relatives to visit the spiritual medium who hosts the seances to find out. Together, they enter the pitch black of the séance room and sit among spirits, in wait for the prowl of a spectral beast. What does the dog in the dark want of its victims? The Darkwood MysteriesEmily Darkwood is already resisting the expectations Victorian society places upon women of the upper classes when, in the wake of her parents' disappearance, she receives a strange and life-changing inheritance: a stone of amber that draws her into supernatural, cosmic, and criminal mysteries. Armed with this guidestone, her wits, revolver, sword-stick umbrella, and faithful servant-companion, the streetwise, scrappy, and young Jack Hobbs, Darkwood sets out to uncover the origin of the stone, its power, and its connection to her parents—and their fate. Yet dark forces circle the stone, seeking its power for themselves. Darkwood and Hobbs determine to stand against them in their relentless pursuit of answers, but in doing so, they risk everything they hold dear.The Darkwood Mysteries are a series of short-stories, novellas, and novels that can largely be enjoyed as standalone tales of horror and adventure from any point, or together in order as part of a deeper mystery.The Hound at the Door is a novella in the series.