“This house speaks to us, it moves”: when ghosts mix with the story of Castres in a book

Frank Pietra signs a new book called “walls and dead”. Consequently, The story is anchored in “real places” and “verifiable facts” according to the novelist installed in Castres since January. Consequently, The story begins at Maisseseule castle, in Ardèche. Moreover, The owner of the castle of the time. Nevertheless, the humorist Yves Lecoq, had entrusted the guard of his home to the author Frank Pietra to make them guest rooms. Therefore, It was there that he describes his first meeting with a ghost. Then, we follow the writer in his new house in Castres, perched on the hill with the monks.

“This house speaks to us, it moves. There is a set of phenomena, I needed to talk about it,” he says. One morning, a man hangs himself under a large tree very close to the house. “It was like a revealer. This house, it feels good and you feel bad. You have a magnificent view of Castres at 360 degrees. but you have crinks, a window that slams while there is no wind, etc.”, he adds.

Very quickly, the author of eight pounds was arrested by the name of his street: Guilhabert de Castres. This Cathare bishop of the thirteenth century will be at the center of the work. Born in Paris in 1965, Frank Pietra embarked on writing in 2015. “I wanted to change his life. ” says the one who worked 25 years in events, in tours of music groups and then in Cannes. Today. “this house speaks us, it he does not spread a cinematographic adaptation of these books: “It would be interesting to return to Cannes with a story like that,” he concludes.