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Carlisle Street

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T M Wright is one of the finest purveyors of quiet horror and this book is a fine example of this.

I found sections of this book to be genuinely frightening, the last few chapters in particular are extremely intense. I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes their frights to be subtle and slowly built as opposed to the in-your-face-lets-rip-someone's-limbs-off style horror that permeates so much of the genre.

This book was just awful..I took a chance and bought it without knowing anything about it. And I regret it.

In a nutshell, this book is about a woman who moves to a house in the country. The house wasn't always in the country. It was the sole surviving house from a fire that destroyed the street it was on. Carlisle Street, in the city. The plot jumps around so much that it's hard for me to describe it. Non-scary ghosts from Carlisle Street show up. Along with phantom buildings that flicker in and out of existence.

I'm not sure if this book is a sequel or not. There are things in this book that are briefly mentioned and no more detail is given. For example, it's mentioned (in passing) about the main character having previously been involved with a religious cult. And an implication that she was molested by her brother. But nothing else is said about it.

So to sum it up, Carlisle Street is not worth your time. I have 2 more books by the same author that are sitting on my bookshelf..I'm afraid to read them now.