Twelve Nights at Rotter House
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Matt Godfrey
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J.W. Ocker
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Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself.
When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for two weeks, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a best seller. As with his other gigs, he sets rules for himself: no leaving the house for any reason, refrain from outside contact, and sleep during the day.
When Thomas Ruth, Felix's oldest friend and fellow horror film obsessive, joins him on the project, the two dance around a recent and unspeakably painful rough patch in their friendship, but eventually fall into their old rhythms of dark humor and movie trivia. That's when things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement. Felix realizes the book he's writing, and his very state of mind, is tilting from nonfiction into all-out horror, and the shocking climax answers a question that's been staring these men in the face all along: In Rotter House, who's haunting who?
©2019 J.W. Ocker (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Now I believe in ghosts
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Keine großartige Spannung, kein Nervenkitzel aber durchaus ok.
Mittelmäßig
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Therefore I'm struggling a bit with the rating - many will say, the story has lengths, the 2-person-drama based mostly on dialogue lacks variance, the story about an an author telling a story about an author telling a story is a bit too "meta". And they may be right, but all that is exactly as it is intended to be.
So again, it's a ghost story about ghost stories, and a good one at that. The reader is exceptionally good, the atmosphere is tight, shock moments are subtly worked into the rather interpersonal drama. The narrative arc slowly climbs towards a surprising peak at the end. Dialogue and references are sometimes funny, sometimes insightful, sometimes jarring - and again, that has its reasons. To sum it up, it's like watching people watching a horror movie, and that's just as entertaining as watching a horror movie yourself.
Don't expect anything, keep the genre tropes in mind, and prepare to be surprised. Very surprised.
If you like Ghost Stories...
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Absolutely recommended
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I listed to it at least 3 times I hope the author gone to do another fiction book.
great haunted house story?
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A weirdly effective story about fear in general
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It is neither scary nor thrilling. I just finished it to hear the announced plot-twist. Which was disappointing, illogical and - again - very racist and misogynistic.
Waste of time!
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