Hare House : A Gothic Modern-day Tale of Witchcraft

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In the clear, uneasy days at the start of autumn, a woman arrives in rural Scotland after leaving her post at a London girls’ school under circumstances she prefers not to explain. Hare House, the estate where she rents a cottage, feels cut off from the world, threaded with narrow roads, empty moorland, and a watchful quiet that settles in quickly.

As she explores her surroundings, local stories begin to surface. Tales of witchcraft, of clay figures hidden in the earth, of young men driven to madness. She grows close to her landlord and his younger sister, yet familiarity brings no comfort, only the sense that the estate guards its secrets carefully.

When winter closes in and snow seals Hare House from the outside world, isolation sharpens into menace. Old fears, long ignored, find room to breathe. Hare House is an atmospheric novel of unease and enclosure, where landscape, folklore, and human desire combine, and where the danger may lie as much in what is believed as in what is real.