The Pit

'History had printed itself on the mouldy knobbled walls, the stones themselves had absorbed the pain and suffering of centuries, like a tap-recorder that went on forever. Now something was making it play everything back.' Oliver Wright finds himself at the centre of a Plague of London replay, drawn back to Thomas Verney whose body he can enter and then miserably watch his seventeenth--century family perish in agony. Was the spark that set all this tragedy in motion the nearby excavations for a new building or is the eccentric old man upstairs the connection? Ann Cheetham spares us no gruesome details as she weaves her story around documented facts. Horror/fantasy readers in Lower-Middle Secondary should relish it.