The Haunting [Paperback]

Ruby Jean Jensen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2000

When a young woman moves into an abandoned house in the woods with her sister and young niece and nephew, she unleashes a savage evil. And unless she can stop it, the innocent will die. . .again and again.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786010959
• ISBN-13: 978-0786010950
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creepy, Gothic Horror!, March 31, 2000

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Eric L. Hoheisel (Haslett, Mi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Haunting (Paperback)

It is unfortunate that this novel has the same title as last summers horror film fiasco. This is a truly creepy, look over your shoulder, late night horror novel. Basically, the house is haunted by demonic creatures which have been conjured up by a former occupant of the house. Jensen reveals just enough details about the creatures to make your skin crawl. If you think you have this novel figured out in the first fifty pages, think again. The author know how to throw in twists. The characters you are sure will survive don't make it. I can't tell you much without spoiling the suprises, but if you like novels by Muriel Grey, John Saul or Richard Laymon you will enjoy this 'Haunting'.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer addictive terror that stays with the reader., October 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Haunting (Paperback)

I read this book and for weeks my thought and dreams kept going back to the house. Feeling the need to go back in, I re-read the book slowly, experiencing every scene, the fear, the terror. Soon the house and Bad Things crept into my nightmares. This would make the best movie ever!

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Idea. Brain Dead Characters., May 26, 2000

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FearlessReader - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Haunting (Paperback)

How many times have you read a novel and found it quite good, except for one fatal flaw? Well, my friends, this was one of those times for me.

This book was okay. It wasn't "Ammie Come Home" wonderful but it wasn't unreadable either. I even managed to tolerate the, mercifully subdued, depiction of a five-year-old girl being disembowelled.

It was goin' good then BAM! Out of nowhere characters who had been given every warning that something was wrong in this house decided to bring two young children into it.

The main character, a woman named Katie actually allows her neice to keep a doll that she has every reason to believe is...well let's just say she aint Raggedy Ann. It might have made sense had the Katie character been secretly malignant but she wasn't. Just stupid.

Katie wasn't the only idiot in the book either. These poor children had a mother who seemed to feel that sleeping in the same room with her babies would bring the world to a screeching halt.

In itself this view isn't so bad but what about when mom has just stared into the eyes of a long dead woman whose glare eminates hate and evil?

And the fun goes on and on. By the end of the book, when Katie (Who should have known this better than ANYONE) actually wonders where the ghost could have hidden the missing child even my cat was caughing up hairballs of impatient frustration. It's a miracle ANY one got out alive. ...Including my cat.