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Eldritch: A Gothic Horror Novel
Something is waiting.
Down where the screams are.
The cavernous Victorian Italianate mansion owned by the old woman is surrounded by twisted pine trees with enormous trunks, and the secrets within the house are as murky as the forest. Yet the old woman knows just who the house needs…who she needs to help her clean the house and get it ready for sale.
Sybil Alderan’s cleaning company has taken a monetary hit, and the contract to clean the old woman’s house is a godsend. Sybil and the other women in her crew arrive at the mansion excited by a big paycheck. Yet they are startled about the strange things that happen the minute they arrive. Sybil senses the estate and the massive trees around it are steeped in a terrible history that she tries to ignore. With Sybil’s mediumship and psychic abilities, she has always recognized the darker parts of life both natural and unnatural. Always in the background are her own traumas, and an ugly secret hidden in her family that has haunted her since childhood. Even the chance at new love can’t remove her feelings that something awful lives within the bones of the house.
The house fathoms too well how to dig into Sybil’s flesh, into her mind, and remind her of who she was and who she might become.
Soon, along with the other women, Sybil finds herself in an epic battle to save her sanity and her life.
The cavernous Victorian Italianate mansion owned by the old woman is surrounded by twisted pine trees with enormous trunks, and the secrets within the house are as murky as the forest. Yet the old woman knows just who the house needs…who she needs to help her clean the house and get it ready for sale.
Sybil Alderan’s cleaning company has taken a monetary hit, and the contract to clean the old woman’s house is a godsend. Sybil and the other women in her crew arrive at the mansion excited by a big paycheck. Yet they are startled about the strange things that happen the minute they arrive. Sybil senses the estate and the massive trees around it are steeped in a terrible history that she tries to ignore. With Sybil’s mediumship and psychic abilities, she has always recognized the darker parts of life both natural and unnatural. Always in the background are her own traumas, and an ugly secret hidden in her family that has haunted her since childhood. Even the chance at new love can’t remove her feelings that something awful lives within the bones of the house.
The house fathoms too well how to dig into Sybil’s flesh, into her mind, and remind her of who she was and who she might become.
Soon, along with the other women, Sybil finds herself in an epic battle to save her sanity and her life.
368 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2024
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January 11, 2025
I felt like this was starting out as a good haunted house story but then so many plot points were added that it just for me became a mess and some parts just felt unnecessary. I felt like this would have been a lot better as a novella than a full length novel.
September 6, 2024
House cleaners BEWARE!
Eldritch certainly lives up to its title. It takes a seemingly straightforward work assignment to many levels of emotional uncertainty from interpersonal relationships to outright terror. The cleaning crew’s responses to each situation revealed many past experiences that they all tried to keep quiet. Denise Agnew developed each character’s role with the expertise of the literary artist she is. Well done!
Eldritch certainly lives up to its title. It takes a seemingly straightforward work assignment to many levels of emotional uncertainty from interpersonal relationships to outright terror. The cleaning crew’s responses to each situation revealed many past experiences that they all tried to keep quiet. Denise Agnew developed each character’s role with the expertise of the literary artist she is. Well done!
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