Who wouldn't get weak in the knees? But where is my handsome and brooding Lord of the Manor? Perhaps he could be lonely, misunderstood and have a tendency for memory lapses. Story wise, MY GOD! Hateful, dark-eyed dead children are like gothic novel kryptonite. But perhaps that if for the best as it would tempt me terribly to spend the bulk I my visit standing by it and caressing my face in mock terror. I should note here the my husband's grandmother has one of these gazing balls in her back garden but sadly it does not glow. The eerie blue glow of the garden gazing ball really give our heroine a creepy bone white quality. Overview Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. speak to us of a deep, ancestral part of us that believes menstrual blood, the language of the. His woman tend to have unusually long slender fingers and a penchant for touching their faces. Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan. Not surprisingly, this Robert McGinnis cover rocks. Emily wants her!Īdmittedly, this book has a lot going on for it, cover and story wise. And young Jane, a nine-year-old orphan who had come to spend the summer with her and mother, is in touch with Emily.

The globe in the garden glows mysteriously at night. But the presence of the little girl who had died twelve years before, the hateful, dark-eyed girl who always had her way, could still be felt in the Canfield mansion. or she will lose her innocent, helpless niece forever.Louisa wanted to believe her own words. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane-a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit. Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden-and the face that looks back at her is not her own. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Janes grandmothers house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Book Synopsis Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house.

But it seems the spirit of Emily, another young girl who lived in the house, has not quite departed. Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. Clapp tells the story of nine-year-old Jane, an orphan spending the summer with her Aunt Louisa and grandmother in an old New England house. About the Book A beloved novel first published more than 30 years ago is available once again.