Play With Me
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Valentine Orphanet, training witch, has been asked to investigate the haunting of the childhood home of Deirdre Chesterton. Reports of hauntings there have been recorded over the last fifty years and with Deirdre inheriting it from her recently late sister it's time to get to the bottom of it all.
Armed with a camera, tape recorder and a weeks worth of practice at protection spells, Valentine and her best friend Sam set up camp to investigate.
It's not a case of seeing who's brave enough to spend a night in a haunted house, it's who will survive.
Chris Norgate
Chris Norgate lives in Hampshire in England with his wife, children and small furry rodent like things and spends most his time playing with them or mucking them out - you decide which.Why write a book? After years of struggling with the written word dating back many years to being labelled at school (by a teacher who was too scared to call him thick) Chris has tried to find ways to not read or write. After having to write more reports for work and driving the automatic spell checker into meltdown, he sat down to make a list of the top ten misspelled words he makes......this soon turned into well over 100. So with a blogging site set up to try and get a short paragraph or two to constantly write words until spelt correct he started the diary; it was originally about his life and was as boring as a firework party under the sea, so he added things to make it more interesting. When comments on the blog started coming in that the girl character was very interesting - which surprised him as he was writing about himself, Chris changed 'her' into Valentine as it was the 13th Feb when he was looking for a name and it seemed a good one to go on with. And there it is, 17 months later a book has been created and now its been unleashed onto the world until Chris is paid an extortionate amount of money to take it away and smash the hard-drive its saved on.If Chris ever finds the courage to write another book he promises to try and put a plot into it.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You'll never go into a haunted house.
I got this after reading another in the series expecting the same as before. That book was warm, bright and reaffirming, this on the other hand made me turn the light on as I walked to bed last night. Its colder, darker and sets a tone that take the characters I met in a book called Dog Days and puts them in real risk.
The gist of this novella is Sam and Valentine are invited to spend the night in the once family home of Deirdre Chesterton who's now bought it off its last, terrified, owners. Sceptical, they set up cameras and recording equipment to try to get evidence of the paranormal. When evidence comes it comes with a bang.
Now trying to survive the night we enter familiar territory with ghost stories. I know I've seen a hundred movies where escape is impossible or implausible at best. I won't ruin anyones enjoyment of this story but the twist, the solution is unique and one of the best I've come across.
You'll never be able to hear a child say "play with me" in quite the same way again.
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Play With Me - Chris Norgate
Diary of Valentine Orphanet – Witch.
Play With Me
Copyright © 2018 by Chris Norgate
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof
may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever
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The right of the author to be identified as the author has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
Electronically Printed in the United Kingdom
Mr Xanthic has reminded me to state that all characters within these
pages are fictional, even him.
Diary of Valentine Orphanet – Witch.
Play With Me
Good day dear reader.
If you delve further into these pages then I warn you now you'll really wish you'd read something else. Somethings, once read, cannot be unread.
Still reading? Well, if you weren't you wouldn't be the inquisitive soul I took you for. So, as we both know that more will be read I guess I'd better be straight with you. All things recorded within these pages are real. They may not fully tie up with any news coverage or accepted history but they are what I saw and what I heard and in my heart, I know my words to be true.
There are Others that walk among us in what we like to believe in our ignorance as our world. It is their world and has been for longer than we stopped swinging in trees. They do not all hide, you probably know some of them, have been taught by some of them or have sat next to them on the train. They most definitely pass you by as you walk without you realising they are so close they could reach out and touch you. I on the other hand do know they're there. I hear their presence, I hear their strength and their emotion flowing out of them as if the very air knows they are different. The aura-sonus, the sound of the heavens… or maybe not.
My name is Valentine Orphanet, I’m 19 and this is my diary. When you've finished with it please return to Mr Xanthic's antique and book shop. If you can.
Safe night.
Wednesday 14th November
19:00
I found myself walking up the gravel driveway with a deep sense of trepidation which was exasperated by the poor lighting hanging on rusted rings cast rich, fulsome shadows and signalled the evening winds passing through elongated creaks.
I was cold. It had nothing to do with the descending Winter temperatures but more to do with this night’s task which hung around my neck like a noose on the gallows.
Three solid weeks before this bleak night the phone had rung at Mr Xanthic’s antique and book shop. It was answered by Samantha who noted down details of the call as they arose and passed them to me when I arrived back from my rounds. At first I thought it was