Archive MT-206 · Epistolary horror

The Quiet House

The owner left one unusual instruction: keep a diary while you’re here.

Published 31 August 2026

Eleanor Addington has agreed to spend six weeks housesitting Bellwether House, an isolated country property where the days are quiet, the nearest neighbours are distant, and there is very little to do except work, feed the chickens, and wait for the owner to return.

Writing a few lines each evening seems harmless enough.

Then Eleanor finds the other diaries.

Hidden beneath the floorboards are notebooks left by previous housesitters, stretching back decades. Different people. Different years. Different lives. But they all begin to describe the same thing.

Someone standing at the edge of the garden.

At first, the figure is far away. Then it appears again. Closer.

And as Eleanor continues to write, she begins to notice something even more disturbing than the person outside. There are things in her diary she doesn't remember doing. Things she remembers only because she wrote them down.

And beneath the floorboards, there are more notebooks than there should be. Some of them have her name on the cover.

The Quiet House is a slow-burning epistolary horror novel about isolation, memory, identity, and the terrible difference between remembering your life and remembering what you wrote about it.

Keep writing. Account for every day. And whatever is standing outside… don't look at its face.