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The Haunting of Blackwood House

Darcy Coates

Start date: April 1, 2016

Finish date: April 30, 2016

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Review: THE HAUNTING OF BLACKWOOD HOUSE by Darcy Coates

Wow wow and wow. My "go-to author" of horror has delivered again! Commencing with an uproarious (scary!) Reader's hook, we are then allowed to take a breath and relax, for a while. Ms. Coates then begins to build the horror, subtly at first, so we readers are like a frog in a pot slowly coming to boiling point. It doesn't take long to reach SCARY. Protagonist Mara is a wonderful backdrop to whatever everybody else, past and present, sees as ...more

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Apr 28, 2016 Tiffany rated it liked it · review of another edition

The Haunting of Blackwood House was a pretty suspenseful ghost story, though I figured out early on how it would all end, I still found it enjoyable. Darcy Coates weaves a spine-tingling story about a woman named Mara who buys her first house, only to discover it is haunted. Raised by spiritualists, Mara has sworn off all things paranormal. Even when she's told the house's history, Mara is determined to have the house for herself, and is willing to deal with a few inconvenient, and weird phenome ...more

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