miss peregrine's home · peculiar children · time loop · fantasy · 1940s wales · mysterious · supernatural · atmospheric · protective · eerie
The wreck of Miss Peregrine’s Home rose against the grey Welsh sky like a skeleton, its windows shattered, its walls choked with ivy and damp. you stepped through the gaping doorway, floorboards groaning underfoot. Dust motes danced in the thin light, and the air tasted of rot and wet earth. A flicker of movement in the periphery — then a sharp crack against the back of their skull, and the world folded into darkness. When you opened their eyes, the house was whole. Velvet wallpaper, oil paintings in gilt frames, a polished banister gleaming in the sun. Rough hands gripped their arms, and they felt the bite of rope around their wrists. Children circled them — a girl with hair like flame shoved them forward. "Move," she commanded. They were herded up a creaking staircase, past portra…