pick• 316 pgs • first pub 2017 • fiction • horror • mystery • dark • gothic • 4.5 Stars
The End of Temperance Dare by Wendy Webb is a good fit for those seeking a haunting and atmospheric mystery that delves into family secrets and the eerie sins of the past.
When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists‘ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor‘s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death.”
“They halted at locker 32. The expressionless attendant slid it out. He bit his sandwich, and a fragment of mayonnaise-speckled crust fell lightly to the graying shroud. Kinderman stared, and then, slowly and gently, he pulled back the sheet to expose what he‘d seen and yet could not accept: Dennings‘s head was turned completely around and facing backward.”
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“Later that day, Karras was relieved of his duties as counselor and assigned to the Georgetown University Medical School as a lecturer in psychiatry. His orders were to rest.”
pickThis book‘s highest achievement is to take the reader into the mental and emotional reality of a possessed individual. The sensationalist stuff is set aside in favor of vivid, intelligent descriptions of what the five victims felt and experienced over many years as their free will was slowly and patiently subverted. It is terribly frightening but also tremendously empowering to understand the role that will and choice play in these situations.
#ScarathlonPhotoChallenge #Day22 #Fear The audiobook of this novel read by the author definitely fills me with fear every time I listen to it. It‘s truly terrifying. My go-to Halloween listen every year. #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 6pts
pickThe Exorcist started out a little slow. I started it several times and put it down, but finally this time it stuck. And let me tell you when the story finally started going it really picked up speed.
I don‘t scare easily but this one unnerved me. It definitely made me fall back in love with classic horror.
https://wildwoodreads.com/2023/10/17/the-exorcist-review/
so-soWhen Vicar Merrily Watkins is asked by Huw Owen to give a talk to a new group of possible Deliverance workers, she is surprised to see ex-SAS man, Syd Spicer, hidden away in the shadows. Now back in the Regiment but as its chaplain, he seems withdrawn & troubled, but will not talk to Merrily about it. In other areas, there are strange goings-on in the fields around Herefordshire & crime is finding its way into the countryside (continued)
