On November 3rd, 1995, the Maxwell family fled their home, forsaking all belongings, never to return. A modest family of four, Clarissa and Harrison hoped to renovate the classic farmhouse on Gore Road as a place to raise their two sons, Jett and Sladen. However, the family was only able to withstand thirteen days in the house before they abandoned the property in terror.
Only three of them escaped with their lives.
Many of these events have never been made public until now. The family has been fearful of disclosing the specifics of their torment, lest the entity that threatened to entomb them in the house discover their whereabouts and continue its reign.
This is the first installment of the account of the Maxwell's thirteen days.
Volume The Spirit Board
Harrison turns the uncovered room into his home study, but gets called away when there's an emergency at his office in the city. Sladen discovers more secrets in the cemetery. Jett invites some new friends over to study, but they have ulterior motives.
Approx. 10,060 words.
Entries in The Entity
Volume Pilot Volume The Spirit Board Volume The Clown Volume The Tin Man Volume Ectoplasm Volume Finale
I am the nerd you see jumping up and down in Hot Topic at the sight of Game of Thrones action figures. I'm also the guy carrying around a Captain America shield backpack and a handful of comic books.
I have more books than I can possibly fit on my shelves, and yet I still run out of things I'd like to read. When that happens, I write my own stories with all the cool things I wish I could find on the shelves. If I don't write them down, I will probably go insane.
I really love ghost/haunted house stories so was intrigued by the preface to this: family moves out of new house after 13 days because of a haunting.
Sadly, I found it hard to form a real opinion because the episode was so short, there was not really enough time to get interested in what was going on or get to know any of the characters. I would've liked to settle into the story a bit more before the episode ended. As it was, it just didn't work as a hook, for me.
I did like that the husband was having an affair and that was clearly a bomb waiting to drop, and wondered about the link with the coffin and the person killed in the past.
I suppose my main comment would be that this could have been longer. Right now, for me anyway, it just wasn't substantial enough to accomplish what it set out to do.