Episode Seven carries the haunting beyond Bedlam's walls. A letter smuggled from the asylum leads Emily toward the truth about her lineage and the ancestral estate that still bears her name. In dreams, she walks the ruined corridors of Shipton Court, hearing voices whisper through the walls. The sea is closer than it should be. The house breathes.
Every step brings her nearer to the revelation that madness may not be illness at all, but inheritance?the echo of a promise made long ago on a doomed ship, when the living and the dead first struck their bargain.
Gothic in spirit and cinematic in scope, BEDLAM: A Wychwood Ghost Story unfolds across centuries and continents, blending psychological suspense, supernatural mystery, and historical intrigue. It is a story of captivity and voyage, of lovers divided by time, and of a curse that refuses to die.
When Emily finally confronts the truth at Shipton Court, she will discover that Bedlam was never merely an asylum. It was a door?and something on the other side has been waiting for her to open it.
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Duke Pierce Reade is an historian, futurist, researcher and writer living and working near the University of Chicago where songbirds are abundant, the trees canopy the streets, and the sunrise over Lake Michigan is spectacular.