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Centered on one fateful night during a weekend house party at a renovated, Irish cottage. It involves a small group of friends, a bottle of whiskey, and an Ouija board. Everything careens in spine-tingling plausibility from there, in a dynamic that begins in seemingly harmless fun, yet quickly turns off-kilter with unintended consequences that sneak up over the reader's shoulder with such disturbance that this book is best not read at night.

Another day, another book. Hope this reads as creepy as it promises!

Trying to catch up on NetGalley requests. This was a short, quick read that had great atmosphere. The author sets a great tone of subtle menace, but never really seems to go anywhere with the story. There‘s no satisfying conclusion and it feels as though he just couldn‘t figure out how to end things, so he just stopped writing, leaving everything open-ended.

29 of #Riotgrams - Chills and Thrills

I just finished this creepy story today and thought a creepy pic of it would be perfect for the #Riotgrams challenge. The only downside is now I am sitting in the dark freaking myself out more... 😱

Note: Candles that were used were flameless. No person, cat, or book were singed while taking this picture.

Note 2: My riotgram challenge will be out of order. No reason, just becuase.

What a surprising dark and eerie ghost story. I loved it.

Friday night is the perfect time for a ghost story set in Ireland

#literarylife #thedeadhouse #pagehabit

This is billed as a psychological thriller and ghost story and it won the Irish Book Award. I should have loved this book. It is only 200 pages but I kept thinking thereal meat of the book was going to start at the next page- then it ended. I just don‘t think there is any “there” there. It wasn‘t bad but not an award winner. I kept thinking it must be a bad translation but apparently not translated. Hmmm. 3⭐️

My new library book, winner of the Irish Book Award and debut novel billed as a contemporary ghost story and dread-inducing psychological thriller. An artist, healing from hospitalization buys a cottage on the Irish coast- invites friends and on a boozy night they pull out a Ouija board...Sold!