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The Shuttered Room — Charlotte Sherman
DEATH WAITS IN DARKNESS
Loneliness was nothing new to Angela. Her parents had frequently left her while they went on their globe-circling trips. But now, suddenly, they were dead, and she was left totally and shockingly alone.
The invitation from an uncle she had never met to come and live in an old mansion in the South - a house she would eventually inherit - came as a blessed relief. Angela wondered, of course, why he ignored her arrival, and never came out of the dark, shuttered room from which only weird music and other strange sounds emerged. It didn't bother her, at first, that all of the other residents warned her away. Until the attempts on her life came closer and closer to succeeding - and she had no one to trust, and no place to run....
Loneliness was nothing new to Angela. Her parents had frequently left her while they went on their globe-circling trips. But now, suddenly, they were dead, and she was left totally and shockingly alone.
The invitation from an uncle she had never met to come and live in an old mansion in the South - a house she would eventually inherit - came as a blessed relief. Angela wondered, of course, why he ignored her arrival, and never came out of the dark, shuttered room from which only weird music and other strange sounds emerged. It didn't bother her, at first, that all of the other residents warned her away. Until the attempts on her life came closer and closer to succeeding - and she had no one to trust, and no place to run....