The House by the Cemetery has some seriously gory passages! There’s witchcraft & blood magic, and buckets & buckets of blood. They know what lurks inside that house, and that it’s better left undisturbed.īut naturally, things get very disturbed. They’re a pair of ghost hunters determined to derail the Bachelor’s Grove project by any means necessary. Of the secondary characters, I really enjoyed Jillie & Ted’s storyline the most. We meet a lot of different characters in this book…a surprising amount of characters, really, given that the book is only around 250 pages. The second half of the book skips ahead slightly, to the near-completion of the haunted house. Their presence is quite off-kilter, and it’s clear early on there is a lot more to discover about these two characters & their relationship to the house.
Two girls, Katie & Emery, show up at the house one day…and just keep coming back, almost taking on assistant roles for Mike. It never felt draggy, but it seemed like this part of the book could’ve been trimmed down a bit. At times, it felt slightly repetitive here, with some detailed descriptions of the work Mike was doing day after day. There are definitely some creepy moments in the early stages of the book, especially when Mike is alone in the house, exploring some of its secrets.
Mike’s friend Perry has purchased the house, and wants to turn it into a haunted house attraction, for Halloween. The Bachelor’s Grove house is legendary, rumored to be both the site of some dark & grisly shit, and currently haunted. In the first half, we spend most of our time with Mike Kostner, a carpenter who has been hired (by a close friend) to rehab an abandoned house. The House by the Cemetery was a lot of fun to read…sort of a self-referential/meta take on a haunted house story. I’ve been on a little bit of a horror movie binge lately, so the timing worked out great for me to get the opportunity to work with Flame Tree Press, a new independent publisher of horror/sci-fi/fantasy (and other) novels! Because while the witch may have been dead… she doesn’t intend to stay that way. There’s a dark, horrible ritual to fulfill. She needs people to fill her house on Halloween. And behind the rumors is a real ghost who will do whatever it takes to ensure the house reopens. There are noises in the walls, and fresh blood on the floor: secrets that would be better not to discover. Soon he’ll learn that fresh wood and nails can’t keep decades of rumors down. But rumors won’t stop carpenter Mike Kostner from rehabbing the place as a haunted house attraction. Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch.
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