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// 寒氣森森的恐怖懸疑氛圍，深刻且尖銳的戰後社會課題 //
戰後的一個夏天，一名鄉村醫生被叫到 Hundreds Hall 看診，那裡從兩個多世紀以來一直屬於Ayres家族，殘留過往宏偉的陳舊房子，就如同它的主人，都正在衰落中努力跟上不斷變化的社會。
但是醫師發現，Ayres家族似乎正在被某種比垂死掙扎的日子更黑暗的東西困擾，而這股黑暗，從踏入這座房子起，便密切、可怕地與他交織在一起……
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One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. Its owners—mother, son, and daughter—are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined with his.
