The Boston Curse
A Terrifying Tale from Dead Men's Fen
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Lincolnshire is the most under populated county in England with much of its countryside being inaccessible farm land or low lying marsh. In 1634 a Dutch engineer by the name of Cornelius Vermuyden was commissioned by King Charles I to drain the Great Fen between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. As the marshlands were drained to provide profitable land for farming the local people of the Fens were displaced and lost their livelihoods. But the Fen's people fought back against the King's adventurers and waged a guerrilla war which rsulted in acts of sabotage and the loss of many lives. However, the acts of destruction from this guerrilla war were not entirely the work of the Fen's people. Some believed that draining the wetlands was an unnatural act which violated the laws of nature. There are local stories dating back to this time identifying water spirits who were angered by the violation of Great Fen. A bog spirit by the name of Tiddy Mun is perhaps the most famous. It is believed that this spirit was responsible for many acts of destruction and the mysterious deaths of several Dutch engineers who were involved in the draining work. Whether or not there is any truth in such tales is of course debatable, but I have heard many people say that there is an unnatural feeling to living on the Fens, and to that, I would have to agree! Formats Book Details The Boston Curse is a horrifying comedy set in rural Lincolnshire in 1994. This ill-fated tale begins in a small isolated village deep in the heart of the fens. M. J. Poynter is a disillusioned college lecturer, driven to the brink of despair by the antics of his unmotivated students. After several mysterious deaths the author is confronted by a series of strange questions ranging from the comic to the bizarre. Is the town of Boston infested with zombies? Could people really be dying from an ancient curse? And what are the locals in the village trying to hide? These strange questions lead him to investgate an old farmhouse at the bottom of Blackmore Drove where a deep, dark secret has been hidden for over 150 years. Disturbed by what he finds the author travels to the neighbouring towns of Boston and Spalding where he slowly unearths the true identity of the village and its shocking past. What he eventaully discovers will leave you stricken with terror and disbelief. Based upon real life events this autobiographical novel reveals a terrifying tale from one of the most haunted counties in all of England. M. J. Poynter is an English writer who grew up in South Africa during the years of apartheid. Having returned to the UK in the early 1990's he took up a teaching position at a college of further education before returning to university. The experience of living in a small village on the Lincolnshire fens would later inspire him to write this novel.
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