The Coffin Path, Katherine Clements
The Coffin Path, Katherine Clements
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The Coffin Path
'the scariest ghost story I have read in a long time' (Barbara Erskine)

Author: Katherine Clements

Narrator: Helen Longworth

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 10/18/2018

Synopsis

**Longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown**

An eerie and compelling ghost story set on the dark wilds of the Yorkshire moors. For fans of The Witchfinder's Sister and The Silent Companions, this gothic tale will weave its way into your imagination and chill you to the bone.

'Spine-tingling... the scariest ghost story I have read in a long time' Barbara Erskine

'A wonderful, macabre evocation of a lost way of life' The Times

'Like something from Emily Bronte's nightmares' Andrew Taylor, author of The Ashes of London

Maybe you've heard tales about Scarcross Hall, the house on the old coffin path that winds from village to moor top. They say there's something up here, something evil.

Mercy Booth isn't afraid. The moors and Scarcross are her home and lifeblood. But, beneath her certainty, small things are beginning to trouble her. Three ancient coins missing from her father's study, the shadowy figure out by the gatepost, an unshakeable sense that someone is watching.

When a stranger appears seeking work, Mercy reluctantly takes him in. As their stories entwine, this man will change everything. She just can't see it yet.

What readers are saying about The Coffin Path:

'A fantastic eerie ghost story to settle down with on a winters night'

'Compelling and chilling, the slow build-up of tension had me completely on edge'

'I couldn't put it down. I felt I was there on the moors, being watched by the unseen'

(P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Katherine Clements

Katherine Clements is a critically acclaimed novelist, self-confessed costume drama addict and current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Manchester. She is editor of Historia, the online magazine of the Historical Writers' Association, and is a member of the HWA committee. @KL_Clements

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bex (Beckie Bookworm) on March 12, 2021

So the Coffin Path was a strange one for me, I was really looking forward to this but it didn't quite deliver and left me feeling a tad confused by that unexplained ending. This book tells the story of Mercy Booth who lives at Scarcross Hall with her father and an old servant named Meg. Scarcross......more

Goodreads review by Blair on November 27, 2017

Set in a 17th-century sheep-farming community against the harsh backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, The Coffin Path felt like a book I could sink into and just savour right from the beginning. This historical ghost story is a fabulous example of great storytelling, rich with detail and drama. Mercy Boot......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on July 22, 2021

The Yorkshire moors are a brooding and forbidding place. For the seventeenth-century farmers of Scarcross Hall the whims of the weather and the lay of the land can herald either a year of wealth or one of misery, according to how it treats their sheep. It is a threat far closer to home that begs for......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on March 03, 2018

I received a free copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review. A slow-burning, atmospheric novel, with plenty of mystery. Say the words 'gothic horror' to me and you've immediately grabbed my attention. As such, I eagerly requested a copy of this book - as anything that promises historic setti......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 17, 2019

I will stay where I belong. I will never leave. Scarcross Hall is mine. This is an evocative , atmospheric and gothic story where the Yorkshire Moors are the central character. Superstitions abound in the local community, ghosts of previous tenants, dead lambs, stolen objects, arson and accusations o......more

Quotes

A wonderfully sinister novel [with] a unique heroine... But the real star here is Clements's beautiful, unsparing evocation of a bygone life on these unforgiving moors The Times

A striking combination of Brontëan romantic melodrama and gothic ghost story... Clements has written an eerily gripping novel in which the ghosts of the past haunt the present in more ways than one The Sunday Times

Intense, twisty drama... the atmospheric writing and the strong evocation of the landscape are terrific Daily Mail

Spine-tingling... the scariest ghost story I have read in a long time. Beautifully written, fantastically atmospheric, it left me sleepless and in tears

Brooding and full of creeping menace

The Coffin Path is the perfect ghost story: utterly absorbing, immersed in a world so completely authentic, peopled by men, women, children - and the beasts of a shepherding life - so completely flesh and blood that when the not-so-flesh arise, it's *terrifying*. But not only that, it's a beautifully wrought evocation of a world and a time that feels as if it's just around the corner. If you like Michelle Paver, you'll love this, but fans of Mantel will love it too - the language is a delight, the word-smithing pitch-perfect, and the narrative drive compelling. This is a book about passion and fear, blood and death and life and love and all the pieces from which life is wrought - if you read only one book this year, make it this one, you won't regret it

A wonderful piece of Yorkshire Gothic, all the more effective for being so firmly anchored in its time and place... like something from Emily Bronte's nightmares

Clements brings alive the bleak beauty of the moors with a chilling ghost story that vividly portrays the superstitions and beliefs of 17th-century rural society Sunday Express S Magazine

Oozing with gothic symbolism, this brooding and beautiful ghost story is guaranteed to haunt your dreams long after the cover has been closed

W&H March Great Read - not to be read alone late at night Woman & Home

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