![]() ![]() The five unlikely companions establish a tentative rapport, but they soon become aware of a sixth presence disturbing the ominous silence that pervades the building. Each has forsaken a long weekend at home for their own secret reasons. Or perhaps it's only gathering itself for the coming weekend.Īs a massive storm dumps rain on the isolated campus, four other lonely students reveal themselves: Patrick, a handsome jock Lisa, a manipulative tease Cain, a brooding musician and finally Martin, a scholarly eccentric. Horror is perhaps the hardest genre to get the ending right, so I'm willing to revisit this because I really liked the eerie sensation that present through most of the book.īaird College's Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. ![]() I recall being less enthusiastic about the ending that I was about the rest of the book, but it has a lovely creepy vibe through most of it, and the ending wasn't all that bad (as I recall). It's got a creepy eerie vibe through most of the book. I'm starting with The Harrowing byAlexandra Sokoloff. I'm especially fond of ghost stories, so that's likely to dominate my reading for the coming weeks. ![]() I'm rather picky with horror, so I'm mostly rereading some of my favorite scary reads. It's that time of year-the run up to Halloween-when my thoughts turn to horror. ![]()
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