I was instantly hooked from the beginning. I love a good house haunting and this give me big Haunting of Hill House vibes. I couldnt not put this down. It was a perfect mix of creepy and twisty.
We follow Margret and her husband Hal, who bought a large victorian house for a reasonable price (usually in films that means a murder happened) but that reasonable price comes with a haunting. Every September, the walls drip blood and the ghosts of the former inhabitants appear. All of them are terrified of something that lives in the basement. But Maragret will not flee. It's her house. But after a few years, her husband Hal leaves abruptly causing their daughter Katherine, who knows nothing about the house and the hauntings, to come visit her mother and find her missing father during the month of September. Margaret has to navigate, not only her daughter during the hauntings but the many pranksters and ghosts that lurk throughout the house, a house that has quite a few secrets.
I have to get this off my chest, but I hated Katherine with every fiber of my being. I get why she is how she is but the way she talks, irritated the shit out of me. But other than that, I loved this story. I loved the twists and turns near the end and it even had me questioning everything about Margaret and the house itself. Fredricka was my favourite ghost, she is the housekeeper and died, like all the others, a horrible death. All the ghosts preset as how they died. Usually in a grusome manner and I really don't know how Margaret got used to seeing the death and gore.
The ending really got my heart racing. It would have made a great mini series or movie. I highly recommend this book if you love ghost stories especially in haunted houses. I gave this book five stars.
π¬What is your favourite ghost story?
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