The cat was just trying to paint and get a divorce. Geez.

12. Haunted – Judith St. George

There is a palpable feeling of summer in this story of housesitting, animal reactions to the supernatural, genealogy, painting, and super judgy marriage choices. Also, the traditional 80s teenager party where the nerdy one does not want to mock the ghosts because he’s aware something very bad will probably happen. I mean, especially when one of the ghosts is a Nazi. Some people’s divorce proceedings still go on, posthumously, so that’s something to look forward to.

Anyway, the sensory information in Haunted was what stuck with me, there was a lot of creepiness and still air and the terrifying for the allergic (me) scent of freshly mowed grass, the humidity – what really gets you is always the humidity. Or maybe the dog being commanded to severely mean behavior by a Nazi ghost.

Mortemer knows mocking ghosts just won’t do.

 

Horace and Morty know that if you throw an 80s pool party on a haunted property, you are asking for trouble forever and ever.