An English Ghost Story (Paperback)

from blodeuedd

I liked this. It was not HORROR, but it was indeed horror. Now what do I mean with that? It was more subtle, and it grew and grew until I was all, I sure hope my house is not haunted.A dysfunctional family, wait a moment. I just have to say that this family should have been in family therapy and ...

from titania86

The dysfunctional Naremore family wants a fresh new start, so they buy a quaint house called the Hollow in the country. This house used to be owned by a children's author whose books focused on a scrappy little girl, her ghost friends, and their home (a fictionalized version of her own home). The...

from calum-iain

"An English Ghost Story" is the story of a dysfunctional nuclear family who move to the sleepy Somerset countryside to start a new life at a rambling house known as "The Hollow". The house is the former home of the famed children's author Louise Teazle. At first things seem fine, but slowly the f...

from lauriebrown54

This novel indeed has the structure of a fairly classic ghost story. A family comes to live in a haunted house- haunted land, actually. The spirit(s) start quietly, but very quickly ramp up to full scale, capital H Haunting. This family, however, is not your typical English ghost story family. Th...

from SharonMariaBidwell

This story was not what I expected. When one hears mention of a ghost story, one imagines the unsettling creak of a floorboard, lights that flicker as though from faulty wiring, an escalation of scares, and spectres at every turn, not a subtle disintegration of family that's almost a metaphor. Th...