Haunted

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Summary: A truly haunting read!
Review: One of the most frightening books I have ever read! Herbert's best, unparalleled by any he has written before or since. The movie was a poor imitation - read the book. It will stay with you long after you are done.

Rating:
Summary: Absolute Rubbish!
Review: Please don't waste your time and/or money on this truly awful book. It's plagiarism at it's worst. Think for a moment to every mystery/horror story you have ever read and enjoyed. Now imagine the dung heap that could be created if someone took bits and pieces of those stories and cobbled them all together - Badly!

The writing is poor and the cohesiveness is non-existent, in fact it distinctly feels like the author changed his mind several times throughout the story before he gave up and just ended it. And then it somehow got published without the services of an editor.

If you are like me and you like your storylines to make sense, pass on this one. In fact maybe pass on this author all together.

Rating:
Summary: If it's so good, why is it out of print?
Review: What would happen if only one person travelled to Shirley Jackson's "Hill House", and what if this house actually contained ghosts? Author James Herbert explores this question in terrifying detail. Our protagonist is David Ash, a highly skeptical paranormal consultant, who investigates a haunted house in a forgotten corner of contemporary England. Having come from a Jamesian/Lovecraftian horror background I certainly rate this as one of the top five modern-day ghost stories I've read, unfortunately its occasional predictability and the sense that the ghosts were not very mysterious keeps it from being my top pick. I was more spooked by the house than the ghosts.

Rating:
Summary: If it's so good, why is it out of print?
Review: What would happen if only one person travelled to Shirley Jackson's "Hill House", and what if this house actually contained ghosts? Author James Herbert explores this question in terrifying detail. Our protagonist is David Ash, a highly skeptical paranormal consultant, who investigates a haunted house in a forgotten corner of contemporary England. Having come from a Jamesian/Lovecraftian horror background I certainly rate this as one of the top five modern-day ghost stories I've read, unfortunately its occasional predictability and the sense that the ghosts were not very mysterious keeps it from being my top pick. I was more spooked by the house than the ghosts.