The Echoes of Ashwood Manor
Enjoy reading for free; if you like the story, and would like to offer a donation it would really be appreciated Les The Echoes of Ashwood Manor, Introduction The first time Jacob Hartman saw Ashwood Manor, it was through a veil of fog so thick it seemed to pulse with its own malevolent life. The mansion loomed like a dark sentinel against the gray sky, its once-grand facade now a patchwork of decay and neglect. Each window was a black, hollow eye watching his approach, and the skeletal branches of the surrounding trees clawed at the fog as if trying to hold it at bay. Jacob, freshly grieving the loss of his wife, Grace, had accepted the job of caretaker with little more than a distant hope for solitude. The ache of her absence was a constant companion, and he imagined the isolation of the manor would offer a space for reflection, away from the prying eyes and sympathetic glances of his old life. What he didn’t anticipate was that the manor itself would turn out to be a more intrusi