Great Britain

American author Kenneth Magee, in London to promote his latest book rashly enters a bet with his publisher, Sam Allyson, to write a novel within 24 hours. So that he can be in total solitude without distraction of any kind, Sam arranges for him to use Baldpate Manor, an isolated house deep in the Welsh countryside which hasn't been lived in since before the war. From the moment he arrives mysterious happenings surround him. Who are the terrifying old man and his strange daughter who say they are the caretakers? Who are the sinister Grisbane family who claim that Baldpate Manor is their ancestral home and that after 40 years they have returned to release the murderous Roderick from the attic room where he has been imprisoned? Why do the Grisbanes die horrifically one by one? Why isn't anybody what they seem? STEP INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS WHERE THE ANSWER AWAITS YOU - OR DOES IT?