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The Lamplighters
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Publisher's Summary
“Transported me effortlessly…Haunting, harrowing and heartbreaking, this is a novel that will stay with you.” (Ashley Audrain, New York Times best-selling author of The Push)
“A ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a pitch-perfect piece of writing.... As with Shirley Jackson’s work or Sarah Waters’s masterpiece Affinity, in Stonex’s hands the unspoken, unexamined, unseen world we can call the supernatural, a world fed by repression and lies, becomes terrifyingly tangible.” (The Guardian, London)
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast - and about the wives who were left behind.
What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent.
It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45.
Two decades later, the keepers' wives are visited by a writer determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. Moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe.
In her riveting and suspenseful novel, Emma Stonex writes a story of isolation and obsession, of reality and illusion, and of what it takes to keep the light burning when all else is swallowed by dark.
Critic Reviews
"The Lamplighters is magnificent. It is a debut novel as compelling as a classic ghost story; it is a locked-room mystery that exposes every secret we wish to keep safe at home. This book will take hold of you, guide you over the waves, and then plunge you under. Read it.” (Julia Phillips, best-selling author of Disappearing Earth)
“Beautiful, absorbing and utterly riveting, The Lamplighters is a hymn to loneliness, to the sea, and to the stories we allow ourselves to believe when we are alone. I treasured every moment of this dazzlingly accomplished and completely unforgettable novel.” --Rosie Walsh, author of The Love of My Life
“Superbly accomplished.... The Lamplighters is a whodunnit, horror novel, ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a pitch-perfect piece of writing.” (The Guardian (London))
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- Michael Ferris
- 03-25-21
Go towards the light.....
I was hoping for a real suspense story. What I got was a lot of suspense and a lot of interpersonal relationships. At times the story dragged. But the last several chapters were brilliant
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- Franchesca
- 04-05-21
Beautiful story and breathtaking performance
I have rarely felt such a range of emotions reading or taking in a performance. Shock, rage, frustration, confusion, sadness, humor. Brilliant story of loss and the complexities of humanity.
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- Pam W
- 03-19-21
Three vanish in a locked lighthouse
A writer goes on a quest to find out what happened to three lighthouse keepers that vanished off of a lighthouse that was locked from the inside.
Set 20 years after the fact, each wife is interviewed, all having their own theories and secrets. The narratives includes the keepers themselves, supposedly leading to the actual answers.
It's an interesting listen, exposing the inner thoughts of six people and how things can be misconstrued by others.
The narrators did a nice job, bringing the characters to life.
5 people found this helpful
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- KJ
- 05-30-21
Could not stop listening
This book was fascinating. Learning about lighthouse keepers was fascinating. Hearing the story unfold from the perspective of all the different narrators was intriguing and the narrators themselves did a fantastic job with the voices. Sometimes after leaving the book for a bit, I’d come back to it and without even looking, I could tell from the narration which character I was hearing. I recommend this book.
4 people found this helpful
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- Hillary
- 04-19-21
spoiler not a supernatural ghost story
this is a book more about grief, isolation & marriage. from reading the description i was expecting a supernatural story and was bored. maybe reading the book might be preferable, I became lost in the narration of the different characters, who the couples are etc. I couldnt follow it.
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- Marissa
- 04-02-21
a mystery among an almost forgotten vocation
An intriguing mystery among an almost forgotten way of life. There has long been a romantic notion of what lighthouse keeping is. This book peels back the layers of romance to show a reader, that like all things we think would be blissful and romantic in lifestyle, are certainly not. An enjoyable read and a surprising ending.
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- Carl L. Lockamy
- 07-09-21
An Amazing Book
I really enjoyed this. I couldn't stop reading. narrator was fantastic like I was there.
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- shadow
- 08-13-22
Haunting
A well-written, haunting novel that communicates the perilous and complicated depths of isolation, life, and the ocean, while understanding that answers for each don’t come easy, if at all.
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- Akos Szilvasi
- 04-13-22
The first two hours....
The first two hours are as boring as life in a lighthouse. I dropped out.
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- wisconsinclark
- 01-10-22
This is not a mystery!
The reviews for this book are mixed. I, like many others. love lighthouses so this book intrigued me. Because of the reviews I decided to wait for a sale. Five dollars wasted. I would have been better served by reading one of the books listed at the end. This is a novel, nothing is resolved. I can t give it a good review because I feel cheated.!
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The Visitant
- A Venetian Ghost Story
- By: Megan Chance
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca' Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her.
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Great love story!
- By Mary Burns on 09-22-16
By: Megan Chance
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The Upstairs House
- A Novel
- By: Julia Fine
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Ravaged and sore from giving birth to her first child, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels for work. Physically exhausted and mentally drained, she’s also wracked with guilt over her unfinished dissertation - a thesis on mid-century children’s literature. Enter a new upstairs neighbor: the ghost of quixotic children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown - author of the beloved classic Goodnight Moon -whose existence no one else will acknowledge.
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Footnotes were super distracting
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-21
By: Julia Fine
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The Thicket
- By: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects them both from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to rescue his sister from the corrupt men who control much of the new territory.
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JESUE FORGIVES, SO WHY NOT ENJOY YOURSELF
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-11-14
By: Joe R. Lansdale
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The Delusion
- We All Have Our Demons
- By: Laura Gallier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Owen was a normal high school student with a great life. That is, until he found a well on some abandoned land, and a man who offered him a drink of water that changed his life forever. Suddenly, Owen is seeing things: Shackles and chains that bind his family and friends, terrifying creatures that connect themselves to the chains, and angelic beings who seem to have a power that even the demons cannot withstand. Do the things Owen is seeing have anything to do with the suicide epidemic currently threatening to destroy his high school?
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Wow!!!
- By Kristal C. on 10-24-17
By: Laura Gallier
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I Am Behind You
- By: John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night, something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of '60s pop icon Peter Himmelstrand. As the holiday-makers try to come to terms with what has happened, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and secret desires.
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Incredible
- By alex crain on 02-20-19
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Ghostland
- Ghostland Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Duncan Ralston
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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After a near-death experience caused by the park's star haunted attraction, Ben has come to Ghostland seeking to reconnect with his former best friend Lilian, whose post-traumatic stress won't let her live life to the fullest. She's come at the insistence of her therapist, Dr. Allison Wexler, who tags along out of professional curiosity, eager to study the new tech's psychological effect on the user. But when a computer virus sets the ghosts free and the park goes into lockdown, the trio find themselves trapped in an endless nightmare.
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loved it!
- By Leela on 03-23-20
By: Duncan Ralston
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Hemlock Grove
- or, The Wise Wolf
- By: Brian McGreevy
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel Mill. A manhunt ensues - though the authorities aren’t sure if it's a man they should be looking for.
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Very similar to the TV show
- By Erin on 01-01-14
By: Brian McGreevy
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The Nightmare Room
- Messy Man Series, Book 1
- By: Chris Sorensen
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems like the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface. They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town - a house purchased by Peter's father at auction and kept secret until now - and start to settle into their new life. But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur.
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An excellent and original haunted house story...
- By Chris Miller on 05-31-18
By: Chris Sorensen
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Burntown
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer McMahon
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown". Eva Sandeski, known as "Necco" on the street, has been a part of this underworld for years, ever since the night her father, Miles, drowned in a flood that left her and her mother, Lily, homeless.
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Good Narrator; Terrible Writing; Body Shaming
- By Kindle Customer on 01-25-18
By: Jennifer McMahon
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The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
- A Novel
- By: Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she’s earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America - especially women’s home recipes and medicines - and by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose abilities were far more magical than the historical record shows.
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Good!
- By CKD on 07-24-19
By: Katherine Howe
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The Splendor of Fear
- By: Ambrose Ibsen
- Narrated by: Melissa Moran
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Penny hates the outdoors, but when her boyfriend, Jared, plans a romantic weekend getaway in the woods, she decides to tag along. The pair drive to a remote Kentucky campground with a strange and sordid history. Within the confines of the Swan Creek State Park are the ruins of a town abandoned under terrifying circumstances in the 19th century. The town of Newsom's Landing had been the site of the last-known witch trial in US history, and the ghost of its defendant, the infamous Ellie Pomeroy, is said to still linger.
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Great Listen!
- By Arlie111 on 03-22-19
By: Ambrose Ibsen
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Dead Spots
- By: Rhiannon Frater
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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The stillbirth of Mackenzie's son destroyed her marriage. Grieving, Mac reluctantly heads for her childhood home to seek refuge with her mother, who constantly reminds her of life's dangers. Driving across Texas, Mac swerves to avoid hitting a deer... and winds up in a dead spot, a frightening place that lies between the worlds of the living and the dead. If they can control their imaginations, people can literally bring their dreams to life - but most are besieged by fears and nightmares which pursue them relentlessly.
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Good concept for a story that is badly portrayed.
- By L.M. on 10-13-15
By: Rhiannon Frater
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The End of October
- A Novel
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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At an internment camp in Indonesia, 47 people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons - microbiologist, epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi prince and doctor in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city....
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Powerful. prophetic, with the heros we need
- By tina on 04-30-20