Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. More than an hour’s drive from the nearest town and surrounded by forests, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude.
But things start to go very wrong, very quickly.
Elle discovers a crumbling graveyard nestled in the woods. It contains a generation of the house’s residents, all with an identical year of death.
Scratching in the walls… slamming doors… whispers in the night… a locked room…
As Elle explores deeper into the house, she begins to unravel the property’s dark and dangerous history. At its centre is Jonathan Gillespie, a tyrannical cult leader and the house’s original owner. And as Elle soon learns–just because he’s dead, doesn’t mean he’s gone.
My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This book had some frightening stories. When I started to read this book I thought it was one full story, but this book was broken into 4 different creepy stories.
The first story was The Haunting of Gillespie House. It was a huge estate that was filled with secrets. Elle is to stay in the mansion all by herself babysitting the home. She starts to hear noises and wonders off in the mansion to check out the home. What she finds will frighten her to death. The mysteries behind the walls are centuries old with pure evil and vengeance. She will need to fight for her life in order to survive this nightmare. Death sometimes doesn’t mean a person is gone forever. When their heart is full of darkness they will linger for revenge.
The second story is Bed and Breakfast. Rory goes to a creepy Bed and Breakfast to record any haunting activity. On recommendations from her followers. The owner warns her not to come out of her room the whole night. She of course decides to continue her recording. She starts seeing a man outside her window and she gets frightened. She of course doesn’t stay in her room. This story will have bloodied doors with a dead husband roaming the inn. Be careful of rundown Bed and Breakfast that aren’t even searchable on search engines. Your nightmares will become reality.
Crawlspace is the next story. I must say the ending of this book scared the crap out of me. A family moves to a new home full of secrets. The young girl had a small crawlspace with a door that wouldn’t open. She kept hearing a clacking noise thinking it was a tree outside banging on her window. She finally decides to open the crawlspace. Seriously, why would you do that? She then decides that going inside in the night was a good idea. Now what she finds are locked doors, walls closing in and frightening dead children. Heck no! This frightened me the rest of the night. Do not read this one at night.
The final story is Lights Out. This story truly had what many people are frighten of “Mannequins”. White mannequins with no face to add to the frightfulness with the added idea that they are porcelain and unbreakable. Darcy finished this book with a bang. Store clerks start to disappear and no one knows what happens to them. Well my friends are you ready for the fright, because humans some how end up as those mannequins. I kid you not, I will not look at a mannequin the same. They might blink at me or stare at me. Nope, no thank you.
Overall, all the stories had parts that will creep you out. Highly recommend you read during the day. Received this book from Sourcebooks early reads for an honest review.
Author Biography
Darcy is the USA Today Bestselling author of Hunted, The Haunting of Ashburn House, Craven Manor, and more than a dozen horror and suspense titles.
She lives on the Central Coast of Australia with her family, cats, and a garden full of herbs and vegetables.
Darcy loves forests, especially old-growth forests where the trees dwarf anyone who steps between them. Wherever she lives, she tries to have a mountain range close by.
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