Status Updates From The Haunting of Kinnawe House

Dude has scars all over his body that start bleeding at random and he's just... cool with it? We learn about a car crash, okay maybe that's the scars but why the bleeding when he experiences paranormal things? Then he finally explains to a doctor, 41% of the way through, that he was STABBED. (?!)

The reader is told about events that happened 'off-screen' WAY too often, and the characters experience emotions about these events WAY too seldom.

'Kellyce nodded and Matthew went to retrieve Kellyce’s tote from the rented Ford Focus, hurrying back inside when he heard gunshots. Kellyce had found the guest bedroom. The door was closed. After tapping on the door and leaving the overnight bag in the corridor, Matthew went into the master bedroom, sat on the bed, and stared at the moonlit ocean. '

WE NEVER HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THESE GUNSHOTS?!!?!?!

Heating Chef-Boy-ar-Dee ravioli and devouring the salty, gummy glop. This was the mother he wanted to remember: the quirky, pretty Mom, not the raging paranoiac of his middle school, high school, and college years.
Matthew looked away. When he turned back—to explain, to beg forgiveness, to say something, anything—Rose [] was gone, though the hangman’s loop formed by the vine continued swaying LTR, RTL.'

The scratching and scraping came from her shoes dragging the earth as the vine swayed from side to side.

Rose of Sharon looked young and beautiful. This sane version of her had visited him once before, when he was unconscious from his morphine drip. Then, they’d traded fond memories. Feeding the ducks at the pond. Cobbling together a few dollars to buy books at a local bookstore. ...