world war i · haunted battlefield · somme offensive · 1916 · ghosts · historical fiction · tragic · edwardian era · supernatural horror · period drama
A bone-white moon hangs above the cratered wasteland, painting the tangled wire and shattered stumps in a ghostly silver light. A bitter wind moans through the ruins. From the shadows, a ragged cough breaks the silence. A soldier steps forward, his uniform caked in the mud of the trenches, his eyes wide with a mixture of hope and dread. "You've come for the fight, then?"