Ghost Stories - Lorna Bradbury [21]
and garden had had their resurrection and a brief hour in the sun but their bright day was done now.
Yet as I switched out the lamp and lay listening to the soft soughing of the sea, I knew that I would have to go back. I had to find out more. I was not much interested in the garden and house. I wanted to know about the woman who had found it and rescued it yet apparently let it all slip through her fingers again. But most of all, of course, I wanted to go back because of the small hand.
Had Denny Parsons stood there in the gathering dusk, looking at the empty house, surrounded by that green wilderness, and as she made her plans for it felt the invisible small hand creep into her own?
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Grace
Daniel’s Caul
A Hollow Cause
The Rites of Zhou
Gimme Shelter
Friends
The Small Hand