The Ruins

Name: The Ruins
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ISBN: 9798188262976

✍️ Heather R D Turnbull

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🏛 Independently Published 📅 2026 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9798188262976

📝 Description: The Ruins

He left his daughter in Pompeii while he took his wife to Rome. It was in the year AD79, and he never saw his daughter again. In the present day, a parish priest and a school teacher visit Pompeii and discover one villa that is shrouded in sorrow and desolation. Any man visiting it is overpowered by the urge to commit suicide. After several deaths, an Italian chief inspector enrols the help of the priest, his female friend and a local psychic medium to try to stop the suicides, which are spreading without need to visit the villa. The spirit of the guilty father is causing what could become a plague of suicides; how can the detective and his associates halt the spread of this fatal epidemic?

💎 Our verdict on The Ruins

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Turnbull crafts a tense narrative that effectively merges the solemnity of historical tragedy with urgent supernatural peril. The concept of a suicide plague originating from a specific villa provides a fresh angle on possession tropes, grounding the horror in psychological despair rather than gore. The inclusion of a psychic medium alongside a chief inspector creates an interesting dynamic between empirical investigation and spiritual intervention. While the premise is straightforward, the execution focuses well on the spreading nature of the curse, maintaining momentum through the escalating deaths. It is best suited for fans of gothic mysteries who appreciate a slower burn that prioritizes atmosphere and the mystery of the supernatural over explicit violence or complex plot twists.

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Horror Reads editorial team

Turnbull crafts a tense narrative that effectively merges the solemnity of historical tragedy with urgent supernatural peril. The concept of a suicide plague originating from a specific villa provides a fresh angle on possession tropes, grounding the horror in psychological despair rather than gore. The inclusion of a psychic medium alongside a chief inspector creates an interesting dynamic between empirical investigation and spiritual intervention. While the premise is straightforward, the execution focuses well on the spreading nature of the curse, maintaining momentum through the escalating deaths. It is best suited for fans of gothic mysteries who appreciate a slower burn that prioritizes atmosphere and the mystery of the supernatural over explicit violence or complex plot twists.