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The Bone Collector's Daughter
Paperback
Series: The Blackthorn Chapbooks, Book 1
Publisher: Marshlight Books
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A rag-and-bone cart by lamplight. Bundles that shift when no wind blows. Debts the dead are still owed.
In Whitethorn's back lanes, the rag-and-bone trade keeps to its quiet rounds. But when a girl inherits her father's nightly route, she finds the cart laden with more than scrap: whispers stitched into sacking, bones miscounted, and a name that should never have been taken. The townsfolk avert their eyes; the ledger will not balance; and something walks at the edge of the lamplight, keeping pace with the wheels.
As the nights grow colder, the daughter must decide what to return and what to keep - before the procession that gathers at the water's edge comes for its due.
The Bone Collector's Daughter is a Blackthorn Chapbook by Edwin Blackthorn - short, chilling Gothic tales in the spirit of the Victorian penny dreadful, meant to be read by lamplight when the house is quiet.
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