Do you love a good ghost story? Well, here's Catherine Cavendish, whose latest novel Waking the Ancients deals with ghosts, black magic, and a haunted villa, to give us some background to the story. I have set a large part of Waking the Ancients in Vienna, Austria where many ghosts and restless spirits walk among the verdant parks and lavish palaces. But Austrian ghosts do not confine themselves too their nation’s imperial capital. They can be found in towns, cities, villages and the depths of the countryside all over this beautiful land. If you wanted an isolated and hidden place to build your castle, you could do worse than choose the surroundings of Schloss Therasburg in Austria’s Niederösterreich region. It seems to deliberately make itself as difficult to find as possible, hidden away in the forest of the Waldviertal. Using the village of Missingdorf as your base, you need to travel 1.25 miles before turning left onto a small road which you could easily
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