Seaton's Aunt

A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton - a bullied outsider with a domineering aunt he believes communicates with ghosts. When their paths cross again as adults, the malignant power the aunt exercises over everyone in her thrall becomes apparent. Walter de la Mare was a 20th century writer whose most famous work was actually a kid's book, which is ironic because most of his works consisted of psychological horror stories, most notably "Seaton's Aunt" and "Out of the Deep".