The Fireside Chats

I picked this book out at my local book store because I just love haunted house stories. It’s kind of rainy and dreary outside so it’s the perfect day to read something like this. This is kind of short read but at the same time it gets right to the point with no drawn stories leading up to the good parts. The author, I think, does a good job of telling a good scary story without putting too much information in it and the book getting bogged down. This book would be a good book to read if you are looking for a good scare……like maybe Halloween night or any evening where there’s a thunderstorm in the forecast. This book would also be for fans of Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House”.

Synopsis: Cat joins her old friends, who are in search of the perfect wedding venue, to spend the night in a Heian-era manor in Japan. Trapped in webs of love, responsibility and yesterdays, they walk into a haunted house with their hearts full of ghosts.

This mansion is long abandoned, but it is hungry for new guests, and welcomes them all – welcomes the demons inside them – because it is built on foundations of sacrifice and bone.

Their night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as the house draws them into its embrace. For lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart.

And she gets lonely down there in the dirt.