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The Beckoning Dead: Books 1-3
Sadie has a gift. And she'll do anything to keep from using it.
At sixteen, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her.
Now twenty-five and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as “Mother Maggot”.
Despite having subdued her gift for the past nine years, Sadie wishes to assist the girl and reticently agrees to visit the site of the haunting. But upon entering the house on Beacon Hill, she discovers that Mother Maggot isn't merely a figment of a disturbed teen's imagination...
This book contains the first three novels in the "Beckoning Dead" The Haunting of Beacon Hill , The Haunting of Rainier Asylum and The Haunting of Winslow Manor .
At sixteen, Sadie Young had a brush with death, and as a result she became more sensitive to the supernatural. Rather than embrace this gift, she spent years running from it, and from the darkness that once preyed upon her.
Now twenty-five and working as a librarian, Sadie is called upon by a desperate family friend to look into a strange series of events. A teenaged girl has entered a reputedly haunted house in town and has gone mad. Committed, the girl attempts suicide and claims to be terrorized at all hours by a horrific specter known as “Mother Maggot”.
Despite having subdued her gift for the past nine years, Sadie wishes to assist the girl and reticently agrees to visit the site of the haunting. But upon entering the house on Beacon Hill, she discovers that Mother Maggot isn't merely a figment of a disturbed teen's imagination...
This book contains the first three novels in the "Beckoning Dead" The Haunting of Beacon Hill , The Haunting of Rainier Asylum and The Haunting of Winslow Manor .
684 pages, Paperback
Published July 5, 2023
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Ambrose Ibsen
61 books668 followersOnce upon a time, a young Ambrose Ibsen discovered a collection of ghost stories on his father's bookshelf. He was never the same again.
Apart from horror fiction, he enjoys good coffee, brewed strong.
Apart from horror fiction, he enjoys good coffee, brewed strong.
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January 1, 2026
Book one with Mother Maggot set the tone—for every win there was sacrifices. Book two, Sadie made it through and was able to free Watchful Tom, but the farmhand still died. Through all of the ups and downs and discoveries, I did not see the end of book three coming! I thought the psychiatrist was the sacrifice. Then, I wondered, after August fell, and with how suddenly he shifted to “no one can help them, we leave NOW”, if he might have died in the rubble. Having it confirmed was heartbreaking. Bless him, he was the best friend she could have had.
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March 8, 2025
Didn’t finish the book. It did not keep my attention..
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