Letters from the Labyrinth is a fantasy story based on the worlds from The Stranger’s Guide to Talliston.

Written by author John Tarrow, this is a sequel, prequel, and stand-alone story to the novel, exploring the 13 locations of the house and novel.

Each of the 13 letters is set in a vast collection of extraordinary times and places.

The book:

Enter this house those who dare.

It was supposed to be just a game. A bit of scary fun. A lark. Every kid in the town knew the place as The Werehouse. They also knew the terrifying double dare linked to it; if you entered on the night of the dark of the moon and placed your hand upon the cursed stone; if you spoke the rhyme and walked into the empty house; if you did all these things, then you would never be seen again....

On the night of the dark of the moon when all the doors to the Talliston labyrinth open, a raven delivers a letter from your friend trapped within the labyrinth of Britain’s most extraordinary home: Talliston House & Gardens. Hidden inside this apparently ordinary house in its ordinary street lies a labyrinth of doors into some quite extraordinary rooms. These are the locations you'll be visiting on your journey through the letters of the story.

The author:

John Tarrow is an English novelist, poet, storyteller, and award-winning writer. His fascination with folk and faerie tales has taken him on journeys around the world, gathering threads of story and legend to weave into exciting new mythologies. His collaboration with Talliston House & Gardens brings together its 13 rooms in a fantasy mail adventure set inside “Britain’s most extraordinary home”.

The house:

The novel is inspired by and set inside a unique and amazing house and gardens. Talliston was a 25-year project that took the UK’s most ordinary house and transformed it, room by room, by ordinary people on an ordinary budget, into Britain’s most extraordinary home. Starting as a three-bedroomed, semi-detached ex-council house in Essex, today not a single square centimeter of the original house remains. In its place is an extraordinary labyrinth of locations, each set in different times and places.