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A Manor to Rue In
Autumn 1929. After the stock market crash in October cost him his career, former banker and Great War veteran Thomas Harrow accepts a new travel to the isolated Blackwood Manor and settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. It should be simple work; review the ledgers, balance the accounts, and collect his pay. But Blackwood Manor has other plans. Thomas instead finds himself trapped within a decaying manor estate. Guided by an unsettling caretaker and haunted by the manor's tragic history, Thomas becomes determined to uncover the truth hidden within Blackwood's walls.
94 pages, Paperback
Published July 6, 2026
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G.H. Glover
2 books2 followersG.H. Glover is a Virginia-based author of atmospheric, historical, psychological, and supernatural horror. A veteran and lifelong admirer of horror fiction and film, he draws inspiration from classic horror, forgotten histories, and the darker corners of human experience. His stories explore fear, isolation, and the unknown forces that haunt both places and people. His debut novella, A Manor to Rue In, introduces readers to his distinctive approach to horror, where history and supernatural dread collide.
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October 25, 2026
ARC REVIEW
A creepy gothic horror perfect for this time of year, and only 94 pages.
Meet Thomas, a veteran and banker who travels to an isolated manor to assess the estate. Sounds like a perfectly normal work assignment, right? What could possibly go wrong with a creepy old house in the middle of nowhere?
Set in 1929, this story gives us a haunted house deep in the woods, an unsettling atmosphere, and enough creepy vibes to make me question why anyone would willingly live somewhere without a single neighbor in sight. But sure, let's go investigate the suspicious old manor.
A quick, creepy little read perfect for spooky season. Just remember, if you're ever invited to an isolated manor in the woods, maybe decline. Some invitations are better left unanswered.
Thanks to Book Sirens for sending me an advanced copy to read and review
3.75⭐️
A creepy gothic horror perfect for this time of year, and only 94 pages.
Meet Thomas, a veteran and banker who travels to an isolated manor to assess the estate. Sounds like a perfectly normal work assignment, right? What could possibly go wrong with a creepy old house in the middle of nowhere?
Set in 1929, this story gives us a haunted house deep in the woods, an unsettling atmosphere, and enough creepy vibes to make me question why anyone would willingly live somewhere without a single neighbor in sight. But sure, let's go investigate the suspicious old manor.
A quick, creepy little read perfect for spooky season. Just remember, if you're ever invited to an isolated manor in the woods, maybe decline. Some invitations are better left unanswered.
Thanks to Book Sirens for sending me an advanced copy to read and review
3.75⭐️
October 29, 2026
Do not read this before bed!
Poor Thomas never gets a break. There was non-stop creepy, horrible, terrifying things assaulting him everywhere he turned.
This book was fast paced and packed with disturbing visuals, but in a way, I found that to be too much. It was a bit overwhelming with all the things that were happening at once.
Overall, it was a quick, spooky read great for Halloween!
Thank you BookSirens for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.
Poor Thomas never gets a break. There was non-stop creepy, horrible, terrifying things assaulting him everywhere he turned.
This book was fast paced and packed with disturbing visuals, but in a way, I found that to be too much. It was a bit overwhelming with all the things that were happening at once.
Overall, it was a quick, spooky read great for Halloween!
Thank you BookSirens for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.
October 4, 2026
"A Manor to Rue In" is a short gothic horror story that is hard to put down. It's very fast-paced, which is ideal if you want a quick, terrifying read for October!
In my opinion, this book is a solid 3/5 stars. I really liked it. Firstly, I think it has an interesting premise and a main character with a lot of interiority. I loved the variation in sentence lengths as a way to make the reader feel the emotions. It was well done.
However, sometimes I felt there was a lack of variety in the lexicon, and the pacing was too quick to allow the scenes to have the impact I was hoping for. Slowing down on some scenes would allow a bit more suspense and tension during key moments. Despite that, I think the horror was well incorporated into the story, and I loved the gothic atmosphere.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
In my opinion, this book is a solid 3/5 stars. I really liked it. Firstly, I think it has an interesting premise and a main character with a lot of interiority. I loved the variation in sentence lengths as a way to make the reader feel the emotions. It was well done.
However, sometimes I felt there was a lack of variety in the lexicon, and the pacing was too quick to allow the scenes to have the impact I was hoping for. Slowing down on some scenes would allow a bit more suspense and tension during key moments. Despite that, I think the horror was well incorporated into the story, and I loved the gothic atmosphere.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
September 1, 2026
At only 94 pages, this is an incredibly quick read that still offers everything a reader could want in a gothic horror story. “A Manor to Rue In,” is an incredibly atmospheric read that makes you feel dark and cold along with Thomas Harrow as he navigates the deteriorating estate. A slow-burn of a story with an ending that is sure to shock, this is a book that would be an excellent edition to your TBR as we approach the fall season.
❗️Content warnings: PTSD, spousal death, suicide
Thank you to G.H. Glover for a copy in exchange for my honest review!
❗️Content warnings: PTSD, spousal death, suicide
Thank you to G.H. Glover for a copy in exchange for my honest review!
October 9, 2026
G.H. Glover’s A Manor to Rue In is a Gothic psychological-horror novella in which a haunted house becomes something considerably more interesting than a repository for ghosts. In the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash, Thomas Harrow, a thirty-two-year-old banker who has lost his job, arrives at decaying Blackwood Manor to reconcile its former owner’s financial records. The manor’s strange caretaker, Mr. Poole, gives him access to the study and its ledgers, cryptically informing him that everything must eventually be reconciled. It is the first of many lines whose meaning changes considerably as the story unfolds.
Thomas is also a veteran of the First World War, and almost immediately the house begins working upon memories he has spent years trying to suppress. Footsteps sound in empty rooms. Portraits change. Writing mysteriously appears in a journal. Shadowy figures move through the halls. Thomas experiences increasingly violent visions of the trenches, and the distinction between supernatural haunting, traumatic memory, and psychological breakdown becomes progressively harder to make.
Glover is particularly good at creating an atmosphere of sustained unease. Blackwood Manor is less a conventional haunted house than an unstable psychological space, constantly changing according to Thomas’s perception. Rooms seem pristine one moment and rotten the next; figures appear and disappear; past and present begin occupying the same physical space. There are plenty of familiar Gothic furnishings here—dark corridors, mutilated portraits, unexplained noises, mysterious journals—but Glover generally puts them to more interesting purposes than simply generating scares. The house gradually becomes an external representation of Thomas’s fractured consciousness.
Mr. Poole is central to making this work. He initially appears to be the standard sinister caretaker who obviously knows far more than he is willing to reveal, but his role becomes considerably stranger. His elliptical comments about debts, memory, and reconciliation sometimes make Thomas—and the reader—want to shake a straight answer out of him. Yet his evasiveness gives the narrative much of its tension. Is he tormentor, guide, jailer, or something closer to a spiritual function? That uncertainty is sustained effectively through most of the novella.
The narrative occasionally overplays its hand, and some may find the recurring imagery of shadows, blood, distorted faces, and grasping hands to be repetitive. The strongest moments are often quieter ones, when a number in a ledger, an altered journal entry, or one of Poole’s remarks suggests that Thomas has fundamentally misunderstood his situation. These subtler moments make the eventual revelation effective. Blackwood Manor was Thomas’s own home, and the financial ruin he has been investigating was his own. More devastatingly, the increasingly tangled images of Catherine and the war finally reveal that her death was bound up with Thomas’s trauma and actions. The full truth is considerably darker, but Glover wisely makes the revelation more than a simple solution to the manor’s mystery.
Glover could easily have stopped with this revelation, but he fortunately goes somewhere more interesting. The mystery ultimately becomes less important than what Thomas does with the truth once he is forced to confront it. Poole draws a crucial distinction between remembering and repentance, and between suffering and genuine atonement. That idea elevates the story above its more conventional haunted-house elements, turning Thomas’s ordeal into an examination of guilt, self-punishment, and the possibility of mercy. What begins as a supernatural mystery consequently develops into something sadder and more psychologically complex: a story about whether confronting the past is enough, or whether living with it requires something more difficult.
The final return to “Rain today, accounts balanced” consequently becomes more than a creepy callback. Thomas began as a banker trying to reconcile somebody else’s books; he ultimately finds himself attempting to balance an account that cannot be settled through suffering. The financial language running throughout the story—debts, ledgers, losses, accounts, reconciliation—ultimately acquires a spiritual meaning.
In the end, A Manor to Rue In works well as an atmospheric and intelligent supernatural novella, occasionally repetitive but ultimately worthy of its central revelation. Beneath the shadows and Gothic grotesquerie is a sadder and more interesting story about trauma, guilt, and the difference between endlessly reliving a terrible act and genuinely confronting it.
Thomas is also a veteran of the First World War, and almost immediately the house begins working upon memories he has spent years trying to suppress. Footsteps sound in empty rooms. Portraits change. Writing mysteriously appears in a journal. Shadowy figures move through the halls. Thomas experiences increasingly violent visions of the trenches, and the distinction between supernatural haunting, traumatic memory, and psychological breakdown becomes progressively harder to make.
Glover is particularly good at creating an atmosphere of sustained unease. Blackwood Manor is less a conventional haunted house than an unstable psychological space, constantly changing according to Thomas’s perception. Rooms seem pristine one moment and rotten the next; figures appear and disappear; past and present begin occupying the same physical space. There are plenty of familiar Gothic furnishings here—dark corridors, mutilated portraits, unexplained noises, mysterious journals—but Glover generally puts them to more interesting purposes than simply generating scares. The house gradually becomes an external representation of Thomas’s fractured consciousness.
Mr. Poole is central to making this work. He initially appears to be the standard sinister caretaker who obviously knows far more than he is willing to reveal, but his role becomes considerably stranger. His elliptical comments about debts, memory, and reconciliation sometimes make Thomas—and the reader—want to shake a straight answer out of him. Yet his evasiveness gives the narrative much of its tension. Is he tormentor, guide, jailer, or something closer to a spiritual function? That uncertainty is sustained effectively through most of the novella.
The narrative occasionally overplays its hand, and some may find the recurring imagery of shadows, blood, distorted faces, and grasping hands to be repetitive. The strongest moments are often quieter ones, when a number in a ledger, an altered journal entry, or one of Poole’s remarks suggests that Thomas has fundamentally misunderstood his situation. These subtler moments make the eventual revelation effective. Blackwood Manor was Thomas’s own home, and the financial ruin he has been investigating was his own. More devastatingly, the increasingly tangled images of Catherine and the war finally reveal that her death was bound up with Thomas’s trauma and actions. The full truth is considerably darker, but Glover wisely makes the revelation more than a simple solution to the manor’s mystery.
Glover could easily have stopped with this revelation, but he fortunately goes somewhere more interesting. The mystery ultimately becomes less important than what Thomas does with the truth once he is forced to confront it. Poole draws a crucial distinction between remembering and repentance, and between suffering and genuine atonement. That idea elevates the story above its more conventional haunted-house elements, turning Thomas’s ordeal into an examination of guilt, self-punishment, and the possibility of mercy. What begins as a supernatural mystery consequently develops into something sadder and more psychologically complex: a story about whether confronting the past is enough, or whether living with it requires something more difficult.
The final return to “Rain today, accounts balanced” consequently becomes more than a creepy callback. Thomas began as a banker trying to reconcile somebody else’s books; he ultimately finds himself attempting to balance an account that cannot be settled through suffering. The financial language running throughout the story—debts, ledgers, losses, accounts, reconciliation—ultimately acquires a spiritual meaning.
In the end, A Manor to Rue In works well as an atmospheric and intelligent supernatural novella, occasionally repetitive but ultimately worthy of its central revelation. Beneath the shadows and Gothic grotesquerie is a sadder and more interesting story about trauma, guilt, and the difference between endlessly reliving a terrible act and genuinely confronting it.
October 5, 2026
There is a particular breed of horror that doesn't rely on cheap, modern thrills, but rather on the slow, suffocating weight of an old house that knows your name. G. H. Glover’s 2026 novella, A Manor to Rue In, belongs to that grand, shadowy tradition. Across nine tightly wound chapters, it weaves a story steeped in dry-rot, cold autumn fog, and the terrifying realization that some debts cannot be paid in coin alone.
We meet Thomas Harrow in the bleak autumn of October 1929. At thirty-two, Thomas is a man already hollowed out by one apocalypse and freshly ruined by another. Having survived the mud and gunfire of the Great War trenches, he wears his silence like armor and his pomade like a shield. When the stock market crash strips him of his banking livelihood, desperation drives him to the overgrown, mist-choked grounds of Blackwood Manor on Long Island. His task is ostensibly one of cold logic: reconcile the chaotic financial ledgers left behind after the sudden death of the estate’s master. Waiting for him in the gloom is Mr. Poole, a caretaker who looks less like a living man and more like something carved from brittle old bone and draped in sentient shadow. Pressing an iron key into Thomas’s palm, Poole offers a greeting that reads like an epitaph: "Everything you seek, ledgers, names, debts, lies within. All must be reconciled... eventually."
Once the heavy oak door locks behind him, sealing Thomas inside with the dust and the defaced family portraits, the true audit begins. What makes Glover’s novella crawl so effectively beneath the skin is how seamlessly it marries historical dread with supernatural decay. We are not merely watching a man get chased by specters in the dark; we are watching a man’s meticulously constructed sanity unravel thread by thread.
To an accountant, a ledger is a sanctuary. It is a world of neat columns where every debit has a credit, and chaos can be tamed by arithmetic. Thomas clings to his personal mantra (Numbers. Order. Control. Willpower.) as if it were a crucifix. Glover takes this mundane anchor and twists it into an instrument of torture. When a mysterious leather-bound journal slips from the files, ink begins to bleed on its own, margins fill with frantic wartime sketches, and phantom figures appear where blank paper stood moments before. There is something deeply unsettling about watching a man try to fight a ghost with a fountain pen and sheer stubbornness.
Blackwood Manor does not haunt with polite rattling chains. As Mr. Poole chillingly observes, "The house isn't haunted, Mr. Harrow. Quite the contrary. It's just very good at reminding." The architecture of the estate acts as a dark mirror to Thomas’s repressed psyche. In some of the book’s most visceral sequences, the boundary between 1929 Long Island and the blood-soaked duckboards of No Man’s Land dissolves entirely. A drafty corridor becomes a frostbitten trench; the pop of a dying fireplace morphs into the crack of a rifle. Glover captures the claustrophobia of wartime trauma with suffocating precision, making the reader question whether the horrors stalking the halls are born of the manor's bloody history or Thomas’s own buried guilt.
For those of us who crave classic Gothic imagery, the novella delivers in spades. The portrait gallery, where canvases are slashed, eyes are gouged out, and painted faces shift when you aren't looking, serves as the beating, rotten heart of the house. The entities that stalk Thomas are rendered with a terrifying, tactile physicality: skin like cracked porcelain, joints that click-and-snap in the pitch black like a marionette with severed strings, and shadows that pool against the laws of light. Yet, juxtaposed against this grotesque terror is the aching, melancholic warmth of Thomas’s memories of his wife, Catherine. The scent of gardenias and bitter tea acts as his only lighthouse in the encroaching fog. Because we feel how desperately he wants to return to her, every slip of his mind hits like a physical blow.
Glover maintains a relentless, feverish pace from the first turn of the key to the final page. The prose is rich with sensory dread, to the point where you can practically smell the damp parchment, hear the scrape of boots dragging across antique floorboards above the study, and feel the icy grip of unseen fingers in the dark. A Manor to Rue In is a bleak, atmospheric triumph. It understands the golden rule of Gothic literature: a haunted house is never just a pile of wood and stone. It is a starving thing, patient and watchful—waiting for a guest whose ghosts match its own. Pour yourself a strong cup of tea, lock the study door, and read this one when the fog rolls in.
We meet Thomas Harrow in the bleak autumn of October 1929. At thirty-two, Thomas is a man already hollowed out by one apocalypse and freshly ruined by another. Having survived the mud and gunfire of the Great War trenches, he wears his silence like armor and his pomade like a shield. When the stock market crash strips him of his banking livelihood, desperation drives him to the overgrown, mist-choked grounds of Blackwood Manor on Long Island. His task is ostensibly one of cold logic: reconcile the chaotic financial ledgers left behind after the sudden death of the estate’s master. Waiting for him in the gloom is Mr. Poole, a caretaker who looks less like a living man and more like something carved from brittle old bone and draped in sentient shadow. Pressing an iron key into Thomas’s palm, Poole offers a greeting that reads like an epitaph: "Everything you seek, ledgers, names, debts, lies within. All must be reconciled... eventually."
Once the heavy oak door locks behind him, sealing Thomas inside with the dust and the defaced family portraits, the true audit begins. What makes Glover’s novella crawl so effectively beneath the skin is how seamlessly it marries historical dread with supernatural decay. We are not merely watching a man get chased by specters in the dark; we are watching a man’s meticulously constructed sanity unravel thread by thread.
To an accountant, a ledger is a sanctuary. It is a world of neat columns where every debit has a credit, and chaos can be tamed by arithmetic. Thomas clings to his personal mantra (Numbers. Order. Control. Willpower.) as if it were a crucifix. Glover takes this mundane anchor and twists it into an instrument of torture. When a mysterious leather-bound journal slips from the files, ink begins to bleed on its own, margins fill with frantic wartime sketches, and phantom figures appear where blank paper stood moments before. There is something deeply unsettling about watching a man try to fight a ghost with a fountain pen and sheer stubbornness.
Blackwood Manor does not haunt with polite rattling chains. As Mr. Poole chillingly observes, "The house isn't haunted, Mr. Harrow. Quite the contrary. It's just very good at reminding." The architecture of the estate acts as a dark mirror to Thomas’s repressed psyche. In some of the book’s most visceral sequences, the boundary between 1929 Long Island and the blood-soaked duckboards of No Man’s Land dissolves entirely. A drafty corridor becomes a frostbitten trench; the pop of a dying fireplace morphs into the crack of a rifle. Glover captures the claustrophobia of wartime trauma with suffocating precision, making the reader question whether the horrors stalking the halls are born of the manor's bloody history or Thomas’s own buried guilt.
For those of us who crave classic Gothic imagery, the novella delivers in spades. The portrait gallery, where canvases are slashed, eyes are gouged out, and painted faces shift when you aren't looking, serves as the beating, rotten heart of the house. The entities that stalk Thomas are rendered with a terrifying, tactile physicality: skin like cracked porcelain, joints that click-and-snap in the pitch black like a marionette with severed strings, and shadows that pool against the laws of light. Yet, juxtaposed against this grotesque terror is the aching, melancholic warmth of Thomas’s memories of his wife, Catherine. The scent of gardenias and bitter tea acts as his only lighthouse in the encroaching fog. Because we feel how desperately he wants to return to her, every slip of his mind hits like a physical blow.
Glover maintains a relentless, feverish pace from the first turn of the key to the final page. The prose is rich with sensory dread, to the point where you can practically smell the damp parchment, hear the scrape of boots dragging across antique floorboards above the study, and feel the icy grip of unseen fingers in the dark. A Manor to Rue In is a bleak, atmospheric triumph. It understands the golden rule of Gothic literature: a haunted house is never just a pile of wood and stone. It is a starving thing, patient and watchful—waiting for a guest whose ghosts match its own. Pour yourself a strong cup of tea, lock the study door, and read this one when the fog rolls in.
October 27, 2026
✨ Thank you BookSirens for access to this ARC! (All opinions expressed here are my own and I am not being paid for this review.) This story is set after the Stock Market crash in 1929 where our MMC Thomas is a World War I vet who has lost his job as a banker. He is desperate for work and takes on the job of trying to settle the estate of the previous owner. The creepy, dilapidated mansion, Blackwood Manor, has other plans. It’s caretaker, Mr. Poole, only adds to the strange ambiance of the place. Sounds, shadows darting, and Thomas’ inability to believe that what he’s experiencing is little more than lack of sleep-induced delusion. Oppressive and dark; it seems as if the house itself is a living, breathing organism. Or is Mr. Poole trying to drive Thomas insane? Is it Thomas’ PTSD from the battles he fought during the war? A quick read at 100 pages; Glover leaves you searching the pages and rereading sentences for answers. 3.75/5 Stars
October 21, 2026
I really enjoyed A Manor to Rue In. I'm a sucker for gothic haunted house stories, and this novella delivered exactly the kind of atmosphere I was hoping for. From the moment Thomas arrived at Blackwood Manor, there was an unsettling sense that something wasn't quite right, and I couldn't wait to uncover the secrets hidden inside its walls. 
What worked best for me was the atmosphere. The decaying manor, the mysterious caretaker, and the blend of supernatural horror and psychological unease created a constant feeling of dread. I also enjoyed how Thomas's past and personal struggles became intertwined with the mystery of the house itself. 
A few elements felt a little repetitive at times, but overall I found this to be a compelling and immersive read. Atmospheric, haunting, and perfect for fans of classic gothic horror.
What worked best for me was the atmosphere. The decaying manor, the mysterious caretaker, and the blend of supernatural horror and psychological unease created a constant feeling of dread. I also enjoyed how Thomas's past and personal struggles became intertwined with the mystery of the house itself. 
A few elements felt a little repetitive at times, but overall I found this to be a compelling and immersive read. Atmospheric, haunting, and perfect for fans of classic gothic horror.
September 30, 2026
Thomas Harrow enters Blackwood Manor with a simple task–balance the accounts of the deceased owner and collect his dues. As the World War I veteran begins reviewing the ledgers, he discovers several suspiciously large entries. But the numbers aren’t the only strange thing about the goings on in the manor. Thomas begins having recurring visions and nightmares of being watched. Something is warning him to stop, but his determination to finish the task drives him forward. Something is watching him, and something won’t let him forget the dark memories of his past.
Discover the mysteries of the Blackwood estate in A Manor to Rue In by G.H. Glover. Dripping with Gothic horror vibes, this novella will take hold of your imagination and grip your attention to the very end. Thomas sets to work on his task, noticing the manor's subtle decay and the shadows surrounding the caretaker. Things don’t seem too abnormal until Thomas starts hearing strange noises and begins chasing figments around the estate. The story’s pacing gives readers a chance to begin noticing changes in the manor, Thomas’s demeanor, and the caretaker's nature. The suspense builds as Thomas’s dreams and reality blur together, leaving readers caught up in the mystery of what’s happening. Madness ensues as the visions grow more violent and the lines between dream and reality blur.
The psychological element woven through the narrative is strong. Thomas seems to be suffering from the weight of what he experienced in the Great War, raising the question: Is he experiencing symptoms of PTSD, or is there a nefarious force haunting the mansion? As the haunting events plaguing Thomas ramp up in their severity, physical evidence rises to the surface in bone-chilling reflections of what’s happening to Thomas. The visions begin to occur more frequently, and the intensity increases until Thomas reaches a breaking point, and the truth is finally revealed in its full horrific glory.
This novella is not for the faint of heart, as the full reality of the trap Thomas finds himself in hits with the somber strength of deepest regret. I’d recommend this short story to readers who enjoy Gothic horror with vivid imagery. If this book were a movie, it’d be a blend of The Shining and Shutter Island with a twist. For fans of a character’s descent into madness, haunting premonitions, and dark nights of the soul, give A Manor to Run In a try.
I received a copy of the book from Reedsy Discovery.
Discover the mysteries of the Blackwood estate in A Manor to Rue In by G.H. Glover. Dripping with Gothic horror vibes, this novella will take hold of your imagination and grip your attention to the very end. Thomas sets to work on his task, noticing the manor's subtle decay and the shadows surrounding the caretaker. Things don’t seem too abnormal until Thomas starts hearing strange noises and begins chasing figments around the estate. The story’s pacing gives readers a chance to begin noticing changes in the manor, Thomas’s demeanor, and the caretaker's nature. The suspense builds as Thomas’s dreams and reality blur together, leaving readers caught up in the mystery of what’s happening. Madness ensues as the visions grow more violent and the lines between dream and reality blur.
The psychological element woven through the narrative is strong. Thomas seems to be suffering from the weight of what he experienced in the Great War, raising the question: Is he experiencing symptoms of PTSD, or is there a nefarious force haunting the mansion? As the haunting events plaguing Thomas ramp up in their severity, physical evidence rises to the surface in bone-chilling reflections of what’s happening to Thomas. The visions begin to occur more frequently, and the intensity increases until Thomas reaches a breaking point, and the truth is finally revealed in its full horrific glory.
This novella is not for the faint of heart, as the full reality of the trap Thomas finds himself in hits with the somber strength of deepest regret. I’d recommend this short story to readers who enjoy Gothic horror with vivid imagery. If this book were a movie, it’d be a blend of The Shining and Shutter Island with a twist. For fans of a character’s descent into madness, haunting premonitions, and dark nights of the soul, give A Manor to Run In a try.
I received a copy of the book from Reedsy Discovery.
October 6, 2026
Well, I didn't expect to read it in one sitting as soon as I downloaded it, but here I am. I'm going to sound crazy, but it reminded me of the game Amnesia, not just the first one but the whole franchise. It's my favorite series, so that's a compliment.
I don't know why, but the whole vibe felt like a video game. The story, the jump scares, the flashbacks. I could imagine myself playing it and finding out the explanation through clues and the atmosphere in the manor.
It was a good, solid story, but it felt a bit repetitive and chaotic, and I know that was the whole point, it was just a bit too much.
I don't know why, but the whole vibe felt like a video game. The story, the jump scares, the flashbacks. I could imagine myself playing it and finding out the explanation through clues and the atmosphere in the manor.
It was a good, solid story, but it felt a bit repetitive and chaotic, and I know that was the whole point, it was just a bit too much.
October 19, 2026
This one was almost a DNF for me.
I felt like the majority of the story was just the same moment repeatedly occurring. Very little actually happened in the book. The writing is also excessively elaborate to the point that it felt like it was trying too hard to sound sophisticated. I also guessed the big twist in the first few chapters, so this one was a big let down for me. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
I felt like the majority of the story was just the same moment repeatedly occurring. Very little actually happened in the book. The writing is also excessively elaborate to the point that it felt like it was trying too hard to sound sophisticated. I also guessed the big twist in the first few chapters, so this one was a big let down for me. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
October 22, 2026
After the stock market crash in 1929, Thomas is a banker who travels to a house to do some financial work but the house won’t let him go.
This novella was wonderful. I loved how the house reacted to Thomas and became a character on its own. The creature that stalked him was super creepy and I did have to read those bits with my feet on the bed and under blankets! The ending was tragic, but not unsatisfying in its own way. Really enjoyed this book.
Thanks BookSirens.
This novella was wonderful. I loved how the house reacted to Thomas and became a character on its own. The creature that stalked him was super creepy and I did have to read those bits with my feet on the bed and under blankets! The ending was tragic, but not unsatisfying in its own way. Really enjoyed this book.
Thanks BookSirens.
October 11, 2026
A solid gothic horror short read. The author wrote in such a way to give you a feeling of unease. A fast paced read perfect for spooky Season.
The psychological aspect of this novella is the heart of the story. Thomas's flashbacks and sense of regret are deeply felt.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily
The psychological aspect of this novella is the heart of the story. Thomas's flashbacks and sense of regret are deeply felt.
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily
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