![]() ![]() I'm going to suggest "The Ghost Writer" by John Harwood as a much better example of the genre.Ĭraig and Effie Bellman are your typical upscale New Yorkers. ![]() This one covered the repulsion factor just fine, but it sure didn't keep me up at night. But as a lover of ghost stories, there is a real difference, between being shocked or repulsed by what I'm reading, and being scared by it. Now don't get me wrong, there are truly disturbing scences here, and many that are fraught with such a level of misogyny that some individuals may have a hard time reading them. ![]() ![]() I agree with another reviewer who mentioned the killings of some of the characters that came totally out of left field with absolutly no motivation behind them. I say this because the "haunting" if you can call it that is not limited to the house, but rather inhabits the characters of the story who travel around and do some very nasty bidding on behalf of the house (or should we say on behalf of Jack) The premises of time and ones perception of it were very thought-provoking, but the actual rationale behind some of the events just didn't ring true. It really isn't a "haunted house" story at all, more like a time travelling possession story. Sorry fellow scare seekers, this one just didn't cut it for me. ![]()
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