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If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bentley Little, then The House will give you the perfect opportunity to get to know this fine sorcerer of horror. Haunted houses are an endless source of fascination for writers of the macabre--Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw are excellent examples. But Bentley Little still manages to add something new to this well-trodden territory--and The House will scare your socks off.
Five strangers simultaneously experience terrifying nightmares and strange hallucinations. These unnerving events reacquaint each of the individuals with a childhood they would rather forget and memories long repressed. It soon becomes apparent that each of these four men and one woman once lived in identical houses--right down to the arrangement of the furniture. Each character must return to that childhood home to confront the demons of the past and liberate their souls from the shackles of despair. Reading this battle of good versus evil is a nail-biting experience. For more of the same by this author, try The Store and The Ignored. --Naomi Gesinger
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Five complete strangers from across America are about to come together and open the door to a place of evil that they all call home. Inexplicably, four men and one woman are having heart-stopping nightmares revolving around the dark and forbidding houses where each of them were born. When recent terrifying events occur, they are each drawn to their identical childhood homes, only to confront a sinister supernatural presence which has pursued them all their lives, and is now closer than ever to capturing their souls....
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5.0 out of 5 stars
ORIGINAL AND HIGHLY CREEPY...,
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This review is from: The House (Mass Market Paperback)
This author, touted as a "master of the macabre" by no other than Stephen King, is one of the most inventive writers of the horror genre today. A Bram Stoker Award winner for his horror novel, "The Revelation", he does not disappoint the reader with this one. This is the third novel by this author that I have read, and I will continue to seek his others, as the ones that I have read, thus far, are generally well-written and have had highly original twists. While they have all seemed to have some sexual themes running through them, it has not been inordinately graphic nor has it supplanted the horror at the heart of the always inventive and genuinely creepy story the author has written.I really loved this one, as the author took a familiar theme, that of the haunted house, and brought it to the next level. Five strangers are each having a major upset in their respective lives. That catalytic event is causing each of them to remember something they would rather forget: their childhood and the strange home in which they each grew up. Compelled to return to their original homesteads, they discover that it is the past that is governing their present. Five separate homes, five separate childhoods, yet, they are all distinctly similar and similarly creepy with memories that each of those who lived there would rather forget. These strangers will be brought together in a way that none of them would ever have imagined. This book will give one the heebie jeebies. The descriptions of the events propelling the story are genuinely eerie and create the right amount of tension. Some of the odd characters in the book create a sense of dissonance and a creepy atmosphere, while others are downright chilling. This was simply a book that I could not put down, as I was riveted to its pages until every last one was turned.
2.0 out of 5 stars
This House Should Be Condemned,
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This review is from: The House (Mass Market Paperback)
I bought this novel hoping for a modern update of Shirley Jackson. Instead I got killer leprechauns (in a non-sequitur preface), little emotional depth or development in the main characters and finally a sadistic demon who masquerades as an eleven year old girl. Little's writing is pretty stale except when he is describing pedophiliac sex, which I found to be repugnant rather than horrific. The ending was---considering the build-up---incredibly rushed and unsatisfying (especially Little's addle-brained exoneration of a creepy school-teacher who happens to be an unabashed pedophile). Some of the dialogue makes one cringe---especially the part where ghosts inform their loved ones that they have "unresolved issues" they must settle---leading to "Dad, you never gave me the love I needed"-type dreck. Horror fans: this is not good writing. If you want to be scared not in your gut but your soul---if you want to THINK---don't read this junk food. Wait for something to break the mold of Stephen King---or perhaps, more realistically, just re-read The Haunting of Hill House.
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Little's Best Novel Yet,
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"The House" is quite possibly the best horror novel I have ever read. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys the psychological horror genre. This book is unique in that it doesn't deal with the traditional horror scene, which is part of what makes it so scary. It does however involve homosexuality and pedophilia, so if you're someone who finds that sort of thing 'distasteful' you might want to avoid this book.
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