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The Ever
The Ever is the classic haunted house story represented by true horror of the 21st century. It attacks the reader’s personal fears, allowing each chapter to generate a new terror and a new adversity for our readers to fight. The Marks house leaves its victims to haunt the house, while it waits for new occupants to take over its residency. It waits. It’s undefined evil lurking, only to be discovered too late.
With crystal clear and often devastating images, The Ever frightens the reader even as it asks intelligent questions about what it means to be afraid, to be a person, to be other. Hollis Jay's debut novel is also wonderfully poetic, making it a unique and important contribution to the horror genre. This is what the 'dream child' of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King would look like.
-Amina Cain author of “I Go to Some Hollow”
The Ever by Hollis Jay is a different kind of horror. It's a different kind of ghost story. It's a different kind of haunted house tale. It's different. And that's not a bad thing.
The books weaves together the lives of all the people touched by the Marks' House, a house containing such evil and malice that it has become a living thing, intent on ensnaring the souls of those it can manipulate into murder....
I can recommend this book as a new kind of horror - if you're just about blood and guts, you can have them here too (great!), but if you want a bit more, if you want to ask questions and find your own answers, then I suggest you read this and ask them.
The Moonlit Door
With crystal clear and often devastating images, The Ever frightens the reader even as it asks intelligent questions about what it means to be afraid, to be a person, to be other. Hollis Jay's debut novel is also wonderfully poetic, making it a unique and important contribution to the horror genre. This is what the 'dream child' of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King would look like.
-Amina Cain author of “I Go to Some Hollow”
The Ever by Hollis Jay is a different kind of horror. It's a different kind of ghost story. It's a different kind of haunted house tale. It's different. And that's not a bad thing.
The books weaves together the lives of all the people touched by the Marks' House, a house containing such evil and malice that it has become a living thing, intent on ensnaring the souls of those it can manipulate into murder....
I can recommend this book as a new kind of horror - if you're just about blood and guts, you can have them here too (great!), but if you want a bit more, if you want to ask questions and find your own answers, then I suggest you read this and ask them.
The Moonlit Door
124 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 10, 2012
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July 1, 2014
To read this book as is at face value, it's a haunted house story, where a house is very much the sort of demented evil entity of its own, strongly reminiscent of the one in the first season of American Horror Story. However, the author's note in the end, which isn't really a note so much as a deeply personal extensive (about one tenth of the book's total)essay on history of abuse and why she writes, and the story comes across in retrospect as something of her personal exorcism. It works as both, though I seem to have preferred the former. Quieter psychological sort of horror.
April 17, 2013
I must say this book just wasn't for me but if you enjoy a horror story than this book is for you. I found the book very well written and very creative/orginal. I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys the horror genre.
November 12, 2012
A very frightening tale. The Ever is the quintessential gothic horror story.
July 16, 2013
I've tried twice to read this book and it just hasn't gripped me at all. Abandoned . . .
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