The Forgotten Room: A Novel by Lincoln Child

Author:Lincoln Child [Child, Lincoln]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, General, Suspense, Fantasy, Historical
ISBN: 9780385531412
Google: UYJoBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0385531400
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2015-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Logan put the book aside. He knew from personal experience that certain places—houses, cemeteries, deserted abbeys—could be home to evil presences: shadows of people or things who had once dwelled there. The more evil the person, the longer the aura tended to remain after death. Some might consider such places haunted; Logan himself did not like the term. But he could not deny the unsettling, even chilling sense of menace he had experienced upon first entering the forgotten room—a sense that had persisted, to one degree or another, ever since. In fact, even now, far from the West Wing, he felt uncharacteristically nervous and irritable.

He’d told Kim Mykolos that the electronic field generator built into the strange device might have been a mechanism for detecting paranormal phenomena. Ghosts. The heavily redacted lines of scientific inquiry he’d found in the Lux files helped lead to such a conclusion. Since the radiator-like assembly built into the other flank of the device appeared to be an EVP recorder, was it indeed possible Lux scientists had, in the 1930s, attempted to summon a spirit from beyond the grave—and succeeded?

Logan rose from his desk and began to pace the room slowly. Chronicles of the Risen Beyond and dozens of other books like it gave accounts of such entities being summoned against their will—and then remaining in the immediate vicinity, angry, malevolent, unwilling or unable to return to the void from which they had come.

Was this the case with Project Sin?

If such a thing had happened—if the scientists had succeeded, and perhaps gotten more than they bargained for—it would explain a lot of things: the abrupt cessation of work, the sealing of the room, the careful culling of Lux’s files.

And then, what of Strachey? If a malign presence had persisted in the forgotten room all these years, his breaking into the space would have been like stumbling into an invisible hornet’s nest. Was it possible this was what had caused…

Another thought struck Logan. He’d found the room unsealed, broken into; exactly when was uncertain, save that the plaster which plugged the hole had been fresh. Others at Lux had seen things, done things, most recently the tragic events of that very morning. Could the forgotten room have been a prison—and, now breached, could whatever was inside have escaped into the mansion at large?

He moved past the large, ornate window of his office, pondering the question. As he did so, he stopped abruptly, frozen in place. He stared out through the leaded panes, jaw going slack.

There, on the lawn far below, was the figure of his wife. She was wearing a yellow sundress and a wide-brimmed straw hat, with a bandanna tied—as was her style—loosely around its brim. She was squinting against the sun, smiling, one hand resting on a cocked hip in the characteristic pose he remembered so well, the other hand waving up at him. The ocean breezes caught at the dress, worried the sleeves and the hem.

“Kit,” Logan whispered.

His mouth went dry and his heart began to race.

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