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Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left. Her mother is dead, she has no prospects and she cannot afford the rent. But as she goes through her mother's things, Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family and an inheritance that she never knew she had, three thousand miles away in Yorkshire. Begars Abbey is a crumbling pile, inhabited only by Sam's crippled grandmother, Lady Cooper, a housekeeper and a handful of servants. Sam cannot understand why her mother kept its very existence a secret.

Mit Benjamin Shelford hat sich ein zweiter Mensch in ein Tentakelmonster verwandelt - und wie die Unbekannte im Rettungswagen hat auch Shelford auf dem abgesperrten Gelände der Abteiruine von St. Lesnes gearbeitet. Wie viele Menschen werden noch sterben müssen? Und warum ist ausgerechnet Detective Inspector John Sinclair von den Veränderungen nicht betroffen?

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, and more. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the 12 stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.