This is a nail-biting story of haunting and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley. Chris has done an amazing job on this book. If you’re a fan of horror but don’t like visual gore and sickening descriptions, The Dead Of Winter might just be the book for you. I have to say though it was a good book from what I read.

I get extremely scared at horror movies and so I thought that by reading a horror novel it wouldn’t be so scary but I was wrong, it was even more scary. When ever I read the book I got scared, the details where so exact, so it was like when I looked my eyes I could see what was happening. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. When he arrives he sees something not quite right when he sees a woman in the mists who mysteriously disappears. After his mother’s funeral he goes to stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents’ will… Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. It was starting to feel as though some monstrous joke was being played on me: to have the benefit of a wealthy benefactor, but to find that benefac. Online reading The Dead of Winter and summary + reviews. Michael’s parents are dead, his mother by an illness and his father in the war sacrificing himself to save a friend. Read book The Dead of Winter online free by author Chris Priestley. This book is about a boy called Michael Vyner who recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him.

The dead of winter by chris priestley