It's hard to add anything else without spoilers, however I will reinforce the fact that the denouement was bloody brilliant and I had a ball reading that portion. I would have preferred less of the extraneous characters and more about the main characters and perhaps more about the history of the house. Also, it took a long time for us to get to where the story really lived. We are introduced to many characters, maybe too many, and while I did like or care for some of them, I don't think they required the amount of attention they received. I just thought it took a bit too long to get there. While I respect his writing, in general, I think he really shines when it comes to the bloody action-plenty of which is too be found towards the end of this story. Ever since I read his book SIREN several years back, I've been meaning to get back to him, and with this book I finally got that opportunity. I requested this ARC from Flame Tree Press because I loved the cover and also because I've been wanting to read more of John Everson's work. Will the haunted house business be a success? You'll have to read this to find out!
All kinds of things go wrong as you may have guessed and lots of gory shenanigans ensue.
He's an entrepreneur that wants to open a Halloween haunted house there. There have always been rumors about the house-something about a witch and a haunting.
Read moreīachelor's Grove is a small town featuring a house backing onto a cemetery. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job at a medical association, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle.įor information on his fiction, art and music, visit. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. John shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. John Everson is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels COVENANT, SACRIFICE, THE 13TH and SIREN, and the short story collections DEADLY NIGHTLUSTS, CREEPTYCH, NEEDLES & SINS, VIGILANTES OF LOVE and CAGE OF BONES & OTHER DEADLY OBSESSIONS.
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