The Little Stranger

One sweltering postwar summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday—a country physician and son of a maid—answers a call to the crumbling Hundreds Hall. Once a grand Georgian estate, the house now wears its decay openly: stonework splitting, gardens strangled by weeds, the stable-yard clock forever stalled at twenty to nine.

Inside, the Ayres family—widowed matriarch, restless son, and haunted daughter—cling to what remains of their fading world, struggling against the march of time and the weight of unspoken tensions. But as Faraday becomes entangled in their lives, he begins to sense a darker rot beneath the plaster and ivy, a force far more menacing than disrepair.

What starts as a doctor’s visit will tether him to Hundreds Hall in ways he could never imagine—binding his fate to the Ayres family’s, as the house’s secrets stir and something unnameable stirs with them.