Secrets of Merchiston

 I've created this blog to serve as a collage for myself as I write my novel and as a way of sharing with my writing coach. If you've stumbled across this blog, I'm afraid it will make no sense, but welcome nonetheless!

Inside the room with the plaster ceiling, in a window alcove, is a spiral staircase hidden behind a curtain.


There is an exterior door in the "L" of the castle beneath the glassed-in walkway:




Video of the "Dungeon" (within this back door) is below:

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