On
the surface, this novel may sound typical: four people spend a week in a house
where unexplainable happenings occur. Unseen forces knock on doors, enigmatic
messages are written on walls in blood, and ghostly voices sing haunting
renditions of children's songs.
What’s
exciting and weird about this novel are the characters. Eleanor and company are
portrayed as true people and the fears they encounter in the house are the
intimate fears we all deal with at some point in our lives. The characters tackle
the fear of loneliness, love, ourselves, of the unknown and so on. The novel leaves
a lot of the problems unresolved or very vaguely fleshed out, but that’s part
of what makes it “weird” or horrific.
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