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Old 11-06-2017, 06:17 AM   #16
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I wholeheartedly agree about Shirley Jackson's masterpiece. Not a haunted house novel in its own right Stephen King's Salem's Lot prominently featured the Marsten House, quite a creepy place.
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Old 11-06-2017, 07:18 AM   #17
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Just checked with Amazon, and the Audible audiobook is $2 cheaper than the Kindle ebook. Go figure.
I thought Bernadette Dunne did a great narration of this.
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Old 11-06-2017, 11:40 AM   #18
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I also recommend the Bernadette Dunne version; there's another one narrated by David Warner that doesn't seem to be available at Audible, but Overdrive has it (Overdrive has both versions).

Is anyone familiar with Wendy Webb's The Fate of Mercy Alban? It fits the haunted house category; I keep considering it but haven't read it.
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Old 11-06-2017, 01:26 PM   #19
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Obvious suggestion: Stephen King's The Shining

There's also Richard Matheson's Hell House. I liked it, but didn't love it.

Two I haven't read yet, but mean to are Anne Rivers Siddons' The House Next Door and Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings.

Douglas Clegg has a series of four books about a haunted house called Harrow. More books I haven't yet read, but hear good things about. As far as I know, each book is stand-alone.

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Old 11-06-2017, 02:42 PM   #20
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That's a title I haven't thought of in years. I read Burnt Offerings many moons ago, probably when it was first published, when I read a lot more horror than I do now. I don't remember details, but I do remember I hated it. Maybe I should revisit it, though.
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That's a title I haven't thought of in years. I read Burnt Offerings many moons ago, probably when it was first published, when I read a lot more horror than I do now. I don't remember details, but I do remember I hated it. Maybe I should revisit it, though.
I've seen the movie with Bette Davis, Karen Black and Oliver Reed. I liked the movie well enough, but always got the feeling the book would be better.

I've had it on my Amazon list for forever, but have been waiting for the price to drop or my desire to read it immediately to grow.
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Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror is good. According to IMDB
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James Brolin was hesitant when he was first offered the role of George Lutz. He was told that there was no script and that he must obtain a copy of Jay Anson's novel and read it as soon as possible. Brolin started the book one evening at seven o'clock and was still reading at two o'clock in the morning. He had hung a pair of his pants up in the room earlier and at a really "tense" part in the book, the pants fell down from wherever they had been hanging. Brolin jumped out of his chair, nearly crashing his head into the ceiling. It was then that Brolin said, "There's something to this story." He agreed to do the movie.
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Obvious suggestion: Stephen King's The Shining

There's also Richard Matheson's Hell House. I liked it, but didn't love it.

Two I haven't read yet, but mean to are Anne Rivers Siddons' The House Next Door and Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings.

Douglas Clegg has a series of four books about a haunted house called Harrow. More books I haven't yet read, but hear good things about. As far as I know, each book is stand-alone.
The Shining has a sequel out now. And there is the Diary of Ellen Rimbaur as well.
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Old 11-06-2017, 04:22 PM   #24
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I'd wager that part of James Brolin's tenseness came from believing the events to be real.

Once you learn it was all a hoax, you're just left with Jay Anson's writing, which I remember being kind of hokey.

Having just slagged the book, I'd try it again.
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I'd wager that part of James Brolin's tenseness came from believing the events to be real.

Once you learn it was all a hoax, you're just left with Jay Anson's writing, which I remember being kind of hokey.

Having just slagged the book, I'd try it again.
Could be. Then again I remember reading it when I was younger and finding the story creepy so (at least in my case) it may have stemmed not only from the possibility of the events being real but how Jay Anson wrote it as well.
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I thought Bernadette Dunne did a great narration of this.

Just bought it. But I have a big backlog of audiobooks ahead of it.
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Not a book, but a terrific haunted house movie is Peter Medak's The Changeling, with George C. Scott as a composer renting a mansion in Seattle. Not gory, but very creepy.
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A Stir of Echos by Richard Matheson
Slade House by David Mitchell
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick (not a horror story)
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

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A Stir of Echos by Richard Matheson
Slade House by David Mitchell
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R. A. Dick (not a horror story)
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
I've not yet read A Stir of Echoes, but I thought the movie (which I understand is very different) was terrific.
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Not a book, but a terrific haunted house movie is Peter Medak's The Changeling, with George C. Scott as a composer renting a mansion in Seattle. Not gory, but very creepy.
Thank you for the recommendation. I watched it last night and it was wonderfully creepy.

My recommendation is the Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman. Which is about a single mom reverend who becomes, reluctantly, the Deliverance Minister (nice word for Exorcist) of the Hereford area. She also manages to get involved with murders. The books leave it up to the reader to believe if the happenings are supernatural or not.

I also like Barbara Michaels' books, which usually involve ghosts. Though they also have a bit of romance.
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