CHANNILLO
Series Description:
The hotheaded Hal Baker, middle-aged physics professor and skeptical Bostonian, arrives in England for a guest-lecturing stint at the University of York. This is a temporary gig maneuvered by his daughter to keep him out of her hair as she plans a wedding of which he disapproves. He stays at the ancestral home of his noble British forbears, Lillicrap Manor, which has a name analogous to both the rundown condition of the estate and to the generations of familial dysfunction that has plagued his extended family on both continents. Hal enters into a close, albeit unlikely, friendship with the manor’s only domestic, Christopher, who is the epitome of British protocol and decorum. Together they embark upon a whimsical scheme of strategic ploy mystically mirrored by an alternate scheme having occurred almost a full century beforehand, this one involving Hal’s maternal ancestor, Elizabeth, and her maid.
Category/Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, ParanormalUpdated: Monthly
Status: Completed
Author Bio For Joseph Duprey:
I am a freelance writer exploring both fiction and nonfiction, and I'm grateful for the chance to serialize The Phantoms of Lillicrap Manor for the first time here on Channillo. Originally born and raised in Connecticut, I've made a slow westward trek, living for thirty years in Colorado before moving to Southern California in 2018.
Series Description:
The hotheaded Hal Baker, middle-aged physics professor and skeptical Bostonian, arrives in England for a guest-lecturing stint at the University of York. This is a temporary gig maneuvered by his daughter to keep him out of her hair as she plans a wedding of which he disapproves. He stays at the ancestral home of his noble British forbears, Lillicrap Manor, which has a name analogous to both the rundown condition of the estate and to the generations of familial dysfunction that has plagued his extended family on both continents. Hal enters into a close, albeit unlikely, friendship with the manor’s only domestic, Christopher, who is the epitome of British protocol and decorum. Together they embark upon a whimsical scheme of strategic ploy mystically mirrored by an alternate scheme having occurred almost a full century beforehand, this one involving Hal’s maternal ancestor, Elizabeth, and her maid.
Category/Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, ParanormalUpdated: Monthly
Status: Completed
Author Bio For Joseph Duprey:
I am a freelance writer exploring both fiction and nonfiction, and I'm grateful for the chance to serialize The Phantoms of Lillicrap Manor for the first time here on Channillo. Originally born and raised in Connecticut, I've made a slow westward trek, living for thirty years in Colorado before moving to Southern California in 2018.