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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast moving and full of surprises,
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This review is from: The House That Jack Built (Mass Market Paperback)
I was pleasantly surprised with how great this book is. It's full of haunting set pieces that will stay with you -- to describe them at all will ruin the thrill of surprise for you (and there are a host of nasty surprises throughout the book). I was reluctant to start this novel, thinking, "What can he possibly do with the haunted house theme that we all haven't seen before?" Well, Masterson has come up with something new here -- a fresh twist on the traditional ghost story, with lots of interesting ideas and a terrifying villain that you won't soon forget.I read many horror novels each year -- it's one of my favorite genres. Like many reviewers here on Amazon, I'm always on the lookout for something I haven't seen before, something exciting and original that will have me flipping the pages as fast as I can. By that standard, this book delivers. It's my first book by Masterson, but it definitely won't be the last!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's nasty and gorey, but it's not scary.,
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This review is from: The House That Jack Built (Mass Market Paperback)
Sorry fellow scare seekers, this one just didn't cut it for me. It really isn't a "haunted house" story at all, more like a time travelling possession story. I say this because the "haunting" if you can call it that is not limited to the house, but rather inhabits the characters of the story who travel around and do some very nasty bidding on behalf of the house (or should we say on behalf of Jack) The premises of time and ones perception of it were very thought-provoking, but the actual rationale behind some of the events just didn't ring true. I agree with another reviewer who mentioned the killings of some of the characters that came totally out of left field with absolutly no motivation behind them. Now don't get me wrong, there are truly disturbing scences here, and many that are fraught with such a level of misogyny that some individuals may have a hard time reading them. But as a lover of ghost stories, there is a real difference, between being shocked or repulsed by what I'm reading, and being scared by it. This one covered the repulsion factor just fine, but it sure didn't keep me up at night. I'm going to suggest "The Ghost Writer" by John Harwood as a much better example of the genre.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Read,
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This review is from: The House That Jack Built (Mass Market Paperback)
I have read other works by Graham Masterton, and I found him to be a very good horror writer. In his latest work, The House That Jack Built, it starts out a bit slow at first, but picks up the pace. The setting in New Orleans is what really made me pick up this book since I have read other horror stories by Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite that took place in the same area. It was a good ghost story and I found myself finishing it in what seemed to be a day and half. It isn't the greatest book of horror that I have read so far, but it was enjoyable and I think it was worth my time.
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