Haunted (Halloween 2001) [Mass Market Paperback]

Tamara Thorne (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1999 | Series: Halloween 2001

Hoping for inspiration for a new novel, David Masters and his teenage daughter visit a spooky Victorian mansion that has a grisly past and witness strange occurrences that erupt in a full-blown, terrifying haunt. Original.

--This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786010908
• ISBN-13: 978-0786010905
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,260,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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65 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A First Rate Haunted House Novel, April 10, 2000

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tyr (austin) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Haunted (Halloween 2001) (Mass Market Paperback)

If you love haunted house novels, you can't go wrong here. I was captured from start to finish. It's got all the hallmarks of a classic ghost story - the skeptical researcher, the sordid history of the house, the slowly building occurances of ghostly activity, the climatic ending, etc.

It's stunning just how graphic this book gets without actually going over the edge - a real achievement nowadays. make no mistake though, there are things that happen in this story that are pretty disgusting.

The dialog, plot, and character development are excellent. Like Richard Matheson's "Hell House" (which no self-respecting fan of Haunted House stories should be without!), this one will stay with you until you have to read it again....

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced Ghost yarn, January 8, 2000

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Eric L. Hoheisel (Haslett, Mi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haunted (Halloween 2001) (Mass Market Paperback)

'Haunted' is a wonderfully fast paced ghost story. The characters are well drawn and the plot exciting if somewhat far-fetched. Be warned that the book contains quite a bit of sex. This is must reading for fans of 'Poltergeist' or authors like John Saul and Richard Laymon.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned ghost story...with sex., June 9, 2005

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Owen Keehnen (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haunted (Mass Market Paperback)

Baudley House is a sprawling mansion supposedly filled with ghosts and demons. Eager to see if the legend is true, horror writer David Masters moves onto the estate with his teenage daughter Amber to write his latest book about the house. Given this rather basic premise author Tamara Thorne then lets her imagination run wild and pulls every trick in the book to keep the reader at the edge of their seat -- seances, cold spots, daggers, dungeons, possession, a cult, succubi, a headless ghost, an abandoned lighthouse, bloody dolls, a torture chamber... HAUNTED is wonderfully atmospheric and grips the reader from the start, holding them fast, and maintaining a solid momentum throughout this juicy, and nearly 500-page, tale of possession and evil from beyond the grave. A spooky and sexy epic. Lots of fun for those who crave a good scare before bedtime.