Seer of Shadows

The time is 1872. Horace is an apprentice to a photographer. Horace has been brought up to believe only in science, that everything related to superstition is wrong and that all is logic and science.

A woman wants her photograph taken by Middleditch, the photographer, and sends her black servant, Pegg, to fetch him. The story the woman gives Middleditch and the story Pegg gives Horace about the woman and what happened in the house don't agree at all. Pegg says that the woman and her husband treated Eleanor, a young girl with cruelty and that the girl died in the house.

Middleditch sees a change to make a bunch of money on this and wants to arrange things so that he can make a fake spirit photo, using the double-exposure method to make it appear that a ghostly Eleanor was right next to the woman.

From his point of view things go all right at first, but Horace, the person sent to take photos of paintings of Eleanor, soon finds that things are not simple at all, that the photos he takes seem to show the girl in them and she becomes clearer and clearer with each subsequent photo.

Pegg tells him that the girl is back for revenge, and that Horace is a Seer of Shadows, someone who can see ghosts. Eleanor's plan for revenge proceeds, leaving destruction in its wake. Pegg and Horace have to figure a way to send Eleanor back to the world of spirits before some people end up dead themselves.

It's a really, really good book, one you want to continue reading and not put down until you're finished.


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