Зловещата къща

by Даома Уинстън

Къщата на Басит Плейс е обляна от зло. Мики трябва да реши дали да остане или да бяга.

Genres: Gothic

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[Nattie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story was as predictable as you can get, but it still managed to be chilling.

I've read a handful of Daoma Winston's books now, and I can fairly say that the author seems to have an issue with fat people. She constantly brings up their size and calls them pudgy or plump at least a few times per page.

On the other end of that, her heroines often seem to be tiny little delicate creatures that people just want to look after. She'll mention their size quite a bit too, but somehow when describing the thinner characters she sounds a lot less demeaning.

I'm giving you major side-eye Daoma!

[Cameron Trost · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short novel about a young woman coming back to claim her inheritance after her husband's death is an enjoyable mystery in which atmosphere, tension and psychology play an important role. Unfortunately, it is very predictable and so the story is not much of a whodunnit. Still, it makes for a chilling suspense tale as we discover how she reacts to the long and living shadow that looms overhead.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This murder mystery was about a young woman who had recently lost her husband and her parents. As soon as she returned to her childhood mansion, strange things started happening--letters under the door, phone calls with only breathing. When Mickey was 14, she had had a nervous breakdown because she found out she was adopted. Now it looks like someone is trying to make her go crazy again, or maybe even trying to kill her. It's a pretty predictable mystery, and the reader knows the killer has to be one of three people, but it kept me reading. I thought Mickey was a very weak person and got tired of her dumb decisions. But it was clean--no sex, no swearing.

[N. · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5/5 - Dreadful, repetitive, and predictable but I spotted some elements used in The Return by the same author, which I've reread numerous times and enjoyed. In this case the spooky house really wasn't and the greedy relatives were transparent. Mercifully, the book was short.

[Виктория Банкова · Rating 1 out of 5]

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