Category: Haunted House

THE SUN DOWN MOTEL BY SIMONE ST. JAMES

2/19/2020

The Sun Down Motel is an incredibly written and eerie read that mixes both horror and thriller. This is my first read from the author but you can bet I'll be reading more from her in the future!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: February 18, 2020
Genre: Psychological Horror. Ghost Story.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 3336 pages
Format: Hardcover. BOTM Pick.

Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.

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THE ELEMENTALS BY MICHAEL MCDOWELL

9/29/2019

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The Elementals is a one of a kind horror novel. While I did like it for the most part (the Gothic undertones were amazing) it was a little too slow for me.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: October 1, 1981
Genre: Horror. Haunted Houses.
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 288 pages
Format: Paperback. Purchased.

After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again ...

A haunted house story unlike any other, Michael McDowell's The Elementals (1981) was one of the finest novels to come out of the horror publishing explosion of the 1970s and '80s. Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, McDowell is now being rediscovered as one of the best modern horror writers and a master of Southern

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KILL CREEK BY SCOTT THOMAS

10/21/2018

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If you are looking for a creepy haunted house story then you don't want to miss Kill Creek by Scott Thomas! This is an original and spooky read and I enjoyed every minute of it.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Genre: Horror
Series: None. Standalone.
Pages: 416 pages
Format: Paperback. Purchased.

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests…

When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At least he won’t be alone; joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. The entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them a part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek.

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