Gad's Hall [hardcover] Lofts, Norah [Jan 01, 1978]

No one at Gad's Hall could admit what they knew about the room in the attic. The locked room that held the Thorley family's most shameful secret. The terrifying room that had once been the living tomb of a beautiful young woman possessed by the darkest evil. Years had passed but the relentless diabolic force abided - waiting until it could once again possess an innocent and inflict its horror upon the living. It was a force countless centuries old. It was simply a matter of time before it would strike again. And when the Spender family moved into Gad's Hall, that time had come...

GAD'S HALL When a house comes up for sale at a ridiculously low price there has to be a catch. Doesn't there? Some sort of legal problem. More prosaically, rising damp or subsidence. But Gad's Hall had none of these problems; it was modernised and in good condition. Mr. Thorley, the vendor, had his reasons for the sale and the price so Jill and Bob Spender were happy to make the purchase. What Mr. Thorley did not—could not—know was that there was an unseen occupant in Gad's Hall which had already caused darkness and death and was poised to do so again... THE HAUNTING OF GAD'S HALL An attic room which shouldn't be opened. An eight-year-old girl whose talent for painting turns... darker. An age-old presence which is about to be let loose, once more to wreak its horrors on the unsuspecting occupants of Gad's Hall.