The Bell Beneath the Sea Mist

von Clay Sheffield

148 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Fifteen years ago, Lucian Ashford, keeper of Bleak Rock Lighthouse, lost his young daughter Clara to the merciless Atlantic. Soon afterward, he descended into madness, claiming that the wind carried his child's voice through the stones. The lighthouse was condemned, its iron doors sealed, and its lonely tower left to rot above the black cliffs of Warden's Spine. The villagers learned to speak of Ashford only in whispers-and never to look toward his tower when the mist rolled in.But Finn, an orphan scraping out a miserable existence along the harbor, sees something that should be impossible: a brilliant white beam sweeping from the supposedly dead lighthouse. Then a voice emerges from the fog, calling his name.The next morning, Finn discovers tiny, barefoot footprints pressed into the freezing shoreline. They lead directly from the Atlantic surf toward the forbidden cliffs, with no tracks returning to the sea. Soon he uncovers another disturbing secret: enormous quantities of precious lighthouse fuel have been disappearing from locked government storerooms, and someone-or something-is carrying them up the treacherous rock face.Defying the warnings of the villagers and the threatening authority of Harbor Master Dean Whitaker, Finn climbs Warden's Spine and slips into Bleak Rock. Inside, beneath layers of decay and fifteen years of official abandonment, he discovers an astonishing contradiction. The lighthouse's machinery is meticulously maintained. Its brass apparatus is warm. Its fuel is fresh. And an intricate network of pipes and reeds can transform the Atlantic gale into a voice that sounds hauntingly human.Yet explaining the mechanical ghost does not explain the footprints. Something has been moving through the tower, leaving traces of freezing seawater where no living creature should be. The deeper Finn investigates, the more he realizes that Lucian Ashford's tragedy may conceal a far more terrifying truth-one that reaches beyond the grief of a father and into the lightless depths beneath the sea.As forgotten records challenge the story Oakhaven has told itself for fifteen years, Finn must confront the difference between a haunting that can be explained and a horror that cannot. The lighthouse was built to guide ships through dangerous waters. But what happens when its light becomes a beacon for something that should never have found its way ashore?The Bell Beneath the Sea Mist is a chilling maritime gothic mystery filled with abandoned towers, ingenious clockwork, buried grief, and the terrible power of unanswered calls. In a village where silence is a form of survival, one boy's determination may reveal why the sea keeps answering.

• Themen: Belletristik Horrorliteratur, Geistergeschichten und Übernatürliches
• ISBN: 9798182946810
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: CLAY SHEFFIELD WYLIE