The Body at Auercliff

The Body at Auercliff

“We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!”<br /><br />When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms.<br /><br />A dead body. A woman. Old and rotten. And her aunt insists she has no idea where it came from.<br /><br />The truth lies buried in the past. For generations, the occupants of Auercliff have been tormented by the repercussions of a horrific secret. And somehow everything seems to be centered upon the mausoleum in the house's ground, where every member of the family is entombed once they die.<br /><br />Whose body was left to rot in one of the house's rooms? Why have successive generations of the family been plagued by a persistent scratching sound? And what really happened to Rebecca many years ago, when she found herself locked inside the Auercliff mausoleum?<br /><br />The Body at Auercliff is a horror story about a family and a house, and about the refusal of the past to stay buried.