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The quintessential haunted house story, but really there is so much more below the surface. This is a book that builds on the quiet and still, it is a book more interested in the psychological than the physical, and the writing is lovely to boot.
This book at first had a shallow feel to it, but before you know it you are waste deep, and what seemed solid was only a viscous liquid and what should be soft and supple turns hard as stone; what should be inanimate is humming with life in this story an ...more
This book at first had a shallow feel to it, but before you know it you are waste deep, and what seemed solid was only a viscous liquid and what should be soft and supple turns hard as stone; what should be inanimate is humming with life in this story an ...more
Classic haunting ghost story. Good writing but found myself bored and uninterested.
It started so normal and ended so...not.
Atmosphere is the word that comes to mind most with this novel. It's got a creepy, gothic feel throughout and the tension increases as the novel goes along. Though I'm not a huge fan of the wife showing up at the last minute; it seemed a little out of left field.
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