The house is very, very angry.
Cherie Priest crafts an absolutely terrifying haunted house story about a salvage company that has to camp out in the house they're demolishing, and end up in the middle of some truly horrifying paranormal rage. The house they are working on is creepy in and of itself, but when they find a cemetery on the grounds that no one mentioned and start seeing people who shouldn't be there, things take an even nastier turn. There are some angry and violent ghosts in this house and they are determined to do some damage before the house is torn down. The Family Plot hits all the right notes of a haunted house novel. It is genuinely scary in a way that made me reconsider reading it late at night. The descriptions of the ghosts and the way they manifest is disturbing and Priest manages to do a written jump scare, something I've never seen accomplished before. There's also the added psychological feature of the fact that the main angry ghost, who is one bad apple, latches on to recently divorced Dahlia assuming she is a kindred spirit who can understand the ghost's rage. The combination of inability to leave the house and the evolution of knowing something isn't right to full-blown ghost trying to kill people is deeply effective. For anyone who loved The Haunting of Hill House, this is another book involving a house that refuses to go quietly.
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AuthorA librarian who likes to travel and experience life. CategoriesArchives
June 2022
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