In the ancient city of Winton, three brothers grow up in the shadow of their family's old flour mill — and of the father whose sins seem to echo through its walls. Everything changes when a strange child named Zyp appears out of the woods, claiming to be a changeling with no home of her own. As she is drawn into the brothers' lives, old rivalries sharpen into something darker, and deep within the mill a locked chamber known as the Room of Silence keeps its own secrets: whispered curses, old prophecies, and a presence that refuses to rest. Told in the hushed, confessional voice of a narrator who has seen more than he can bear, The Mill of Silence is a gripping Victorian gothic tale of family ruin, buried guilt, and supernatural dread — from a writer now remembered as one of the great masters of the English ghost story.
In the ancient city of Winton, three brothers grow up in the shadow of their family's old flour mill — and of the father whose sins seem to echo through its walls. Everything changes when a strange child named Zyp appears out of the woods, claiming to be a changeling with no home of her own. As s...