The Haunting of Gillespie House
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0992594944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 198 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
More than an hour's drive from the nearest town and surrounded by forests, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. Scratching in the walls slamming doors whispers in the night a locked room As Elle explores deeper into the house, she begins to unravel the property's dark and dangerous history. At its centre is Jonathan Gillespie, a tyrannical cult leader and the house's original owner. Elle discovers a crumbling graveyard nestled in the woods. It contains a generation of the house's residents, all with an identical year of death. Some houses breathe Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. But things start to go very wrong, very quickly. And as Elle soon learns - just because he's dead, doesn't mean he's gone. Includes a bonus short story, Crawlspace, which inspired Gillespie House.
Julie Shiel said Old fashioned ghost story. This is the first thing I've read by Darcy Coates. It's been a while since I've read a good old fashioned ghost story, and this looked like it would fit the bill. The premise of the story is one you've seen in every ghost movie ever. A girl is house sitting a big old mansion out in the middle of nowhere, and of course it has loads of secrets and one locked room. She quickly begins to hear things in the . "Give it a whirl" according to avatar1Give it a whirl This is my first novel by D. Coates. I enjoy supernatural stories and haunted houses. This novel has minimal violence and seems in some ways to pay respect to earlier works, Hell House by Shirley Jackson coming to mind (lots of references, for ex.,of the house being alive/breathing). It follows a young woman who is house sitting for an older couple who are off on a month long retreat to repair their fai. 6. This is my first novel by D. Coates. I enjoy supernatural stories and haunted houses. This novel has minimal violence and seems in some ways to pay respect to earlier works, Hell House by Shirley Jackson coming to mind (lots of references, for ex.,of the house being alive/breathing). It follows a young woman who is house sitting for an older couple who are off on a month long retreat to repair their fai. Old fashioned haunted house meets zombie. Kind of. A fast read. Overall I think the premise of the story was good but it seemed like the author didn't want to make it longer. So many characters could have been better developed, and I found myself almost not caring at times what happened to any of them but reading on anyway at least to find out what happened at the end. The end involves a fair amount of suspension of disbelief, but if you're not hoping f