Haunted [Hardcover]

James Herbert (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: MACKAYS; Seventh Printing edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000JNFVGQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,696,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book had some truly chilling moments., June 29, 2003

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Jenna Leigh "Jenn" (Louisiana, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haunted (Hardcover)

I got this book at a book fair for a buck so I got my money's worth of chills out of it and then some. I don't know what that other reader is complaining about The Others and Sixth Sense for as this book was written way before those movies ever came out!! If anything they copied him. I loved it and it gave me quite a few scary moments. Especially the pond scenes, and the last scene of the book with Mr. Ash was also chilling. So I do recommend this book to anyone who likes eerie little stories of things that go bump in the night, or the day as the case may be.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vies with The Magic Cottage, March 15, 2002

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ilmk "ilmk" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haunted (Paperback)

I'm not sure which I like best, this or the Magic Cottage. Probably joint first of Herbert's novels. Haunted is one of those rare ghost stories where the ending completely catches you by surpise. Like the film, Sixth Sense.
Without giving it away, this isolated english rural house is the setting for the erstwhile reporter, David Ash, to unravel an old, old ghost who is claimed to be haunting the current inhabitants. Simplistically told, well drawn, I dare anyone to guess what's really going on.
Oh, and there was a film made of this with Anthony Andrews a while back whose screenplay is as good as this original ghost story. I recommend watching it as well

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A slightly different ghost thriller., October 4, 2001

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haunted (Paperback)

James Herbert's Haunted is a surprisingly complex ghost story that, while considerably more low key than his notorious, and quite gruesome, rat novels, does deliver the required chills as well as a mystery with a secret that will haunt long after the book has concluded. The lead character, David Ash, appears again in The Ghosts of Sleath, a sort of sequel to this. Recommened not only to Herbert fans, but to ghost story addicts everywhere.