I have to admit that I am a sucker for ghost stories. I like the historical factor that is associated with them. The idea that the energy of an event or a person can consciously or unconsciously linger over time is intriguing.
I just finished reading The House Where Evil Lurks: A Paranormal Investigators Most Frightening Encounter by Brandon Callahan. My mind is muddled over what to think of it. The book is written in first person, and in some ways feels a little bit like a movie script. I don’t know if that is because of the way the story unfolds, or if I have watched too many episodes of Ghost Hunters /Most Haunted and can visualize what each scene would look like. The events that unfold are interesting and can keep the readers interested. By the end of the book, I tended to wonder about the cats, but that probably has more to do with me being a cat person, than any intent on the authors part.
Overall the book is about as frightening as an episode of Most Haunted or Ghost Hunters. It gives you enough history for your mind to make certain leaps and jumps, but not enough to leave the average reader shaking in their boots. If anything, the picture of the cover is a bit more sinister than the recollections of the paranormal investigation.
I am sure that some people would want to take every word seriously, but seeing that I was reading for pleasure and not to expand upon paranormal investigation skills, I found it was easy to skim some parts with out losing the gist of what was happening. It was an easy beach read, that kept me amused as I was slowly roasted by the unrelenting solar rays. I enjoyed the book, and would lend it out if someone was interested in that sort of genre. If I were to give it a rating it would be 3 stars out of 5 stars. A good beach read, with low investment of mental energy to enjoy.
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