The House in the Fens a Ghost Story - Ghost Stories, #1 - E-book - ePub

In England during the sixteen hundreds, there was an outbreak of Witch hunting. Most (but not all) of this took part in the remote corner of England known as East Anglia. The government of the time employed people to carry out searches for these unfortunate women, who were accused of being Witches. One such Witch hunter was a man called Mathew Hopkins; the self proclaimed `Witchfinder General`. In a small village called Manningtree, in Essex, he claimed to have found twenty-three such Witches.
They were sent for trial at the Chelmsford assizes, and inevitably found guilty and sentenced to be hanged for thei crimes against God. Of the twenty-three, four died in the local goal and the other nineteen were publicly hanged in sixteen fourty-five. Mathew Hopkins hunted Witches throughout East Anglia, but declared that the best hunting was in the Fenlands, where every village was alive with sorcery and satanism.
Our story starts in a remote house constructed in the Fens by Robert Adams in the mid seventeen hundreds, in early eighteen hundred the house was inherited by Sir Cyrus Myles, a noted satanist. The house remained in the same family, and in twenty twenty-two, it is inherited by Laura Miles; which is where the story starts.