An emergency relief crew was sent to man the lighthouse, and at the end of their month-long duty, they resigned from their posts, never to speak of what they had experienced.
The mystery of Eilean Mor has never been solved. Until now.
In the present, a group of environmental researchers arrives to observe the wildlife. While exploring the lighthouse, now deserted, one of the team discovers a manuscript written by one of the relief keepers, a man named Alec Dalemore. As a sudden storm cuts off their escape, the researchers come to realise that Dalemore wrote the manuscript as a warning to all who would come after him - a warning of something ancient and powerful and strange beyond imagining...
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A terrible accident has happened at Flannans.- TELEGRAM FROM CAPTAIN HARVIE, MASTER OF THE LIGHTHOUSE TENDER HESPERUS, TO THE SECRETARY OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTHOUSE BOARD, 26 DECEMBER 1900
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(@lume_books, 10 February 2020, e-book, 301 pages, borrowed from @AmazonKindle, #PrimeReading)
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I really enjoyed T he Lighthouse Keeper. I've read other books about the strange disappearances at Eilean Mor. This is the first book that considers the possibility of supernatural occurrences. I liked that it was different than other books about the same events. I enjoyed the fact the researchers found a journal of one of the relief keepers at Eilean Mor after the disappearances, so you get to understand the strange events witnessed and experienced so many years ago and how they are linked to the present. The finding of the journal is a little contrived but works well. The book is well-written and well-paced. I liked it a lot.