The Silent House is available as a 300 copy limited edition hardback printed lithographically, sewn sections, with silk ribbon marker, printed boards, and head and tailbands. Jacket. 250 pps.

 

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ISBN 978-1-912586-69-1

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The Silent House

And Other Strange Stories

by

Sophia J. Unsworth

 

Sophia J. Unsworth is an assured new voice in contemporary strange and supernatural fiction, and this debut collection marks the arrival of a new literary talent.

 

Drawing on elements of the weird, the uncanny, and the psychological, Unsworth offers unsettling narratives of creeping unease and psychological depth. In these ten singular and thought-provoking stories, Unsworth tells of hauntings that are not only found in Gothic mansions, but also within the quiet recesses of the human mind. These are tales where reality is subtly warped, where memory is a distorting mirror, and where the best-forgotten past intrudes.

 

A pianist’s museum dedicated to a silent film-maker is not just filled with physical reminders of the past, but with intangible forces that attract unworldly visitors who arrive with a parallel agenda. Can one recreate the physical past through memory alone? Can the debris of architectural salvage retain memories of the traumatic past? What happens when creativity and madness overlap?

 

Unsworth is a natural storyteller, offering lyrical prose and an understanding of character and atmosphere.

 

Cover painting ‘An Old House’ by Edith Abbott.

 

 

The author, Sophia J. Unsworth is interviewed on our blog here.

 

About the author:

Sophia J. Unsworth was born in Prestwich, Lancashire, and acknowledges the influence of a German mother and an Italian/Bohemian grandmother. She studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, and moved to Tenerife in 1987 where she became orchestral pianist to the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and FIMUCITE, the International Film Music Festival. She later combined her performing activities with a teaching position at Musikene, travelling regularly to the north of Spain. Recently retired, Sophia continues to live in Tenerife with one of her five grown-up children, seven hens and a rooster called Henry. The Silent House and Other Strange Stories is her first book.