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Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected.
"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down." - The Horror Report.
#1 Amazon Best-Seller in Ghosts, Gothic, U.S. Horror, & LGBT Horror.

Featured on:
PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.
Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.
Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.
BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.
BLGM's Best Gothic Horror Books.

This terrifying slow-burn combines the literary Gothic prose of Shirley Jackson, Ambrose Bierce, & Thomas Tryon with the "what's really real?" aspects of The Shining. Cabin Green has also been compared to the devastation of Hereditary and the socially progressive, ambiguous approach of Paul Tremblay.

Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée was Ben's first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, "There's no such thing as an evil building." Now he's caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.

This modern Gothic horror story takes the reader directly into Ben's hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that's filled with more twists than a roller coaster.

More than 5,000 readers have checked in to Cabin Green. Don't miss your reservation for this unique Gothic nightmare.

"A haunting tale." - PopSugar
"Paralyzing." - Medium.com
"Slow-burn claustrophobia." - Grit Daily
"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques." - The Inquisitr.

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AWARDS:
TOP VOTE GETTER: Best Horror/Suspense - The Kindle Book Review (TKBR) Reader's Choice Awards 2018.
RUNNER-UP: Best Overall Book of 2018 - TKBR Reader's Choice Awards
SEMIFINALIST: TKBR's 2018 Jury Award for Best Horror/Suspense

Content Warning: Contains gore, sex, profanity, & deeply disturbing psychological themes. This isn't a fluffy horror story; it's true, descriptive Gothic horror that's emblematic of the destructive nature of grief & also contains societal/political/religious critiques. For mature readers only.

Inspired by a real-life, spooky green cabin in Northern Michigan that's so well-hidden it can't be found by GPS! This book also contains a disturbing section that was inspired by real-life events.

Reviews:

"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery...invoking real emotion on the part of the reader." - The Horror Report

"A breath of fresh air...instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn't pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of." - Mangled Matters

"Sucked me in from the first page... Taylor pulls the rug out from under her readers... a well-structured and integrated climax. I read this book in one sitting... fighting the urge to turn on all the lights." - Connal Bain, Author of Blood Moon Fever

"Unique... the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic... and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense... [it's a] sucker punch." - HorrorTalk

"Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down..the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-20th century techniques." - Inquisitr

"Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy." - BoredPanda

Length: 232 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Featured on:
PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.
Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.
Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.
BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.
BLGM's Best Gothic Horror Books.

"Unique... the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic... and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense... [it's a] sucker punch." - HorrorTalk.com

"A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery...invoking real emotion on the part of the reader." - The Horror Report

"A breath of fresh air...instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn't pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of." - Justin Hamelin, Rondo Hatton Award-Winning Horror Journalist and Author

"Takes [the] standard genre template and turns it upside-down..the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy...unique...with a literary approach that combines modern and mid-twentieth century techniques." - Inquisitr, The Best Horror Books of 2018

"April A. Taylor's The Haunting of Cabin Green sucked me in from the first page... Taylor pulls the rug out from under her readers... a well-structured and integrated climax. I read this book in one sitting... fighting the urge to turn on all the lights." - Connal Bain, author of Blood Moon Fever

"Grief is the driving force in The Haunting of Cabin Green. Taylor weaves a haunting tale of a man who can't be sure if the desolate cabin he's staying in is full of ghosts or if his mind is playing tricks on him." - Popsugar, The 13 Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018

"I thought this would be a simple ghost story like Paranormal Activity. It wasn't. Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy." - BoredPanda

"I will never look at puzzles the same way again. The one is DARK. If you're looking for a happy ending or a more humorous take on the genre, look elsewhere. The subplot about Ben's mom is probably going to give me nightmares... there's a lot to like here." - Stephanie Rabig, Author of Sink or Swim: The Search for Aveline

"Polarizing and paralyzing." - Medium.com

"Slow-burn claustrophobia." - Grit Daily

From the Author

I wrote the first draft of this book while sitting at the dining room table of the real Cabin Green (yes, it's real, and yes, it's in Northern Michigan!) back in 2007. I stuck it in my virtual filing cabinet after writing "The End" and didn't touch it again for 10 years. When I unearthed it in 2017, I found the structure of a story I very much wanted to tell. The version you're about to read is quite different from that first draft, but it stays true to the original story.

The Haunting of Cabin Green has many themes you'd expect from a horror novel, including mortal peril and a (possible) supernatural enemy. It also tells a heartbreaking love story of a couple that was separated by death's embrace shortly before their wedding day.

Are you open to exploring the inner depths of the human psyche? Do you feel comfortable with a horror story that goes well beyond the normal tropes and introduces some new elements? If you said yes on both counts, I invite you to enter the dark world of Cabin Green. I think you'll like your visit, and unlike the protagonist, you're free to come and go as you wish.

From the Back Cover

Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. This original, terrifying psychological thriller is the debut horror novel from the author of the Midnight Myths and Fairy Tales Series.

Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée was Ben's first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, "There's no such thing as an evil building." Now he's caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.

This modern Gothic horror story takes the reader directly into Ben's hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that's filled with more twists than a roller coaster.

This novel was inspired by a real-life, spooky green cabin in Northern Michigan that's so well-hidden it can't be found by GPS!

About the Author

April A. Taylor is an award-winning, multi-genre author and dark art photographer. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Cabin Green, was featured on:

-Popsugar's '13 Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.'
-Inquisitr's 'Best Horror Books of 2018.'
-Ranker's '2018's Scariest Horror Books.'
-BoredPanda's '7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.'
-BLGM's 'Best Gothic Horror Books.'

Sinkhole: A Horror Story and Missing in Michigan received 5-Star ratings from Readers' Favorite. Corvo Hollows was named a 5-Star Must Read Book by Reedsy.

Sinkhole: A Horror Story was featured on:

-Grit Daily's 'Horror Continues to Thrive with the Scariest Books of 2019.'
-Medium.com's 'Celebrate Halloween with These Macabre and Progressive Horror Books.'
-BuzzFeed Community's '7 New Horror Books That Will Actually Scare You.'

The Haunting of Cabin Green was the #1 Amazon best seller in the U.S. New Horror Releases category for three straight weeks. It went on to become a #1 Best-Seller in Gothic, Ghosts, U.S. Horror, and LGBT Horror. Additionally, it was the Top Vote-Getter in the Horror/Suspense category of The Kindle Book Review's 2018 Reader's Choice Awards.

Many of April's books take their inspiration from real-life events. Local history is woven throughout the Alexa Bentley Paranormal Mysteries Series, and all of her novels contain at least one or two elements from the author's life.

In her psychological thriller book, Corvo Hollows, April delved even deeper into her own real-life events through a fictionalized account of a terrifying encounter. The main character in Corvo Hollows also battles fibromyalgia, as does April.

Her Fine Art and Dark Art photographs have been published and exhibited around the world by a diverse list of media sources such as Fangoria, Scream: The Horror Magazine, and the short horror film Cathartic.

April is a proud member of the Horror Writer's Association. She lives in Michigan with the love of her life and their two cats. If her life was a cartoon, she'd be Lisa Simpson.

ASIN : B07BJ78NNY
Publisher : Midnight Grasshopper Books (April 17, 2018)
Publication date : April 17, 2018
Language : English
File size : 4765 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 232 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #214,486 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #101 in LGBT Horror eBooks
- #769 in U.S. Horror Fiction
- #1,098 in Gothic Fiction

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jen

The forced and repeated politically correct hits are annoying.

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018

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This was an imaginative and well written tale, but after the first hundred pages or so I skipped to the end to see how it all turned out and pitched the book. It was very slow moving and the politically correct jabs that were so out of place and so often repeated got old and annoying really quickly. I just wanted to read a good ghost story, and this had the potential to be such, but I certainly didn't want to be force fed the author's personal beliefs.

67 people found this helpful

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connal bain

A Dark Tale of Haunting and Inescapable Grief

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2018

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I'm a sucker for a good ghost story, and April A. Taylor's The Haunting of Cabin Green sucked me in from the first page. Opening with a near-accident on a fog enshrouded road in the woods, the novel moves from the literal landscape fog to plumb the depths of the metaphorical fog of memory, history, and grief. What impressed me with this novel is both its attention to Gothic atmosphere and its examination of grief, loss, and depression.

I enjoyed the non-linear narrative, the way Taylor sutures events from the past with the ongoing story of Ben, the central character, as he visits a remote cabin in the woods hoping to find time to reflect on the death of his fiancee. But, as with all great Gothic tales, that inward turn to self examination leads to a slow invasion of the paranormal into the "real" world.

I read this book in one sitting, staying up late into the dark night and frequently pausing to listen for sounds in my home and fighting the urge to turn on all the lights. If you're a fan of ghost novels like Harvest Home, The Haunting of Hill House, or A Winter Haunting, you will love this one!

21 people found this helpful

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Benjamin Piacitelli

An Instant Modern Horror Classic

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2018

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The Haunting of Cabin green was a novel that instantly caught my attention and from the very first page I could tell I was in for a literary treat. Exceptionally written and beautifully descriptive you will find yourself inside the Cabin Green in no time. The author does a wonderful job of pulling you in and keeping you hooked. I literally couldn't put it down, and I finished it the same day I started. Eerie and filled with angst you are in for a journey like no other, a true psychedelic horror experience that will leave you wanting more. It is written so intelligently that the very plot may leave some who are not well versed in abstract twist endings confused and wanting. Fans of films like The Secret Window or perhaps The Black Swan would enjoy the artistic psychological nature of the book that makes you question the main characters sanity up until the very end when all is revealed. I enjoyed a lot of the social aspects of the novel and found it to be very progressive and with the times as well. A true modern horror classic in the making, I'd suggest it to anyone! Can't wait to read the authors new title Missing in Michigan which I'm sure will meet every expectation I have for a well written book!

15 people found this helpful

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Lucky in KCTop Contributor: Pets

something's gone horribly wrong.

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2018

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My daughter gave up about 1/3 in, while I skimmed through the last half and even then it was just...so..noooooooope. Really tried to finish but, when I resort to just skimming through, something's gone horribly wrong.

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Justin Hamelin

Gothic horror done right!

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2018

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If a horror novel is going to truly reel me in, I need characters I care about, deep and vibrant descriptions to get me in the macabre mood and a strong story line that makes me want to invest my time into. THE HAUNTING OF CABIN GREEN has all of this and more.
What Taylor does so great in this debut novel is ramp up the emotional weight while also injecting the perfect amount of suspense-building dread, without sacrificing the quality of the story or character development. It's easy to get too wordy or lose yourself in a novel as an author, but Taylor handles this one fantastically.

As a reader, I’m a huge fan of description and Taylor makes sure you can see, smell and taste every piece of this novel. The visuals I got from this book are some of the more stark imagery I’ve enjoyed while reading in quite some time. Think Anne Rice meets Ambrose Bierce. Like any self-respecting ghost story, of course there’s a surprise to the ending. For the sake of being a spoiler-free review, I can only suggest that you pick this one up for your Kindle or bookshelf as soon as possible. Taylor doesn’t pull any punches and she refuses to play it safe in her debut novel, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of.

12 people found this helpful

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Anne Norchi Iglesias

An easy reading thriller, not too intense

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2018

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This horror story takes you on Ben’s vacation where he hopes to get a grip on the grief over his fiance’s death. He heads to a cabin he and his friends share. Strange things begin to happen that have him questioning his sanity, literally. Is it paranormal or is he insane?

I enjoyed the concept of this story, and the author’s ability to describe his surroundings enabled me to picture the cabin in the woods, Ben boating and swimming on the lake, and sitting outside the small-town laundry and grocery store. I did not get a thrilling, psychological feel, though, and I kept waiting for things to “come together.”

9 people found this helpful

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Karen Ingalls

A Good Read

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018

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Ben's fiancee has recently died in a car accident and it overcomes him with remorse. He goes to "Cabin Green" to heal from this tragedy. The author does an excellent job of moving from one time frame to the next. The reader learns about Ben's dysfunctional family, his mother's mental illness, his poor relationship with his father, and the deep love for Kyra who is his fiancee. I liked the ending.
It well describes the horror scenes, but there were too many such scenes which is the reason I gave it 4 stars.

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Rhonda T

Lost interest

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019

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Boring. Couldn’t even get halfway through before I stopped reading it. Uninteresting characters. Plot is slow.

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wrathful_firefly

Don't bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2019

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I don't like writing negative reviews of books, as I can only imagine how disheartening it must be for the author. However in this case I can barely find a good thing to say about it. Firstly the writing style is infuriating. It reads like a teenager's first attempt at a novel, very stilted and unnatural. The author tries to compensate for what I assume is a lack of confidence in her own prose, by the gratuitous overuse of complicated (unnecessarily so) vocabulary, and by peppering the story with similes. Apparently nothing can be as it is, everything is compared as if it is something else. Whilst without doubt a story can flourish with such literary flair, to have every other sentence finish in such a way makes the dialogue bulky and slow, and pretty tiresome.

My next point of contention here is with the main character. Escaping the tragedy of the loss of his fiancé a mere week before their wedding day by retreating to an isolated cabin in the woods, I'm sure we should pity Ben. Initially I did, but his constant moping, whining and general "woe is me" attitude quickly began to grate. As the story progresses and strange things begin to happen I became more frustrated by his bury my head in the sand attitude, and poor decision making that led him down a increasingly worsening path. In the end end he didn't care if death embraced him, and neither did I. There are a few periphery characters, but I didn't find any of them particularly enjoyable or relatable. I primarily put this down to the stilted and unnatural dialogue already mentioned, and a very two dimensional way of storytelling.

As for the actual storyline, what a waste. There is an interesting premise at heart, and I enjoyed the jumbled chronology. Jumping between different points in the past and the present helped keep things fresh and interesting. But ultimately I think what should have been only hinted and suggested at for true horror to creep in was dealt with too heavy handedly, and what could have been explored to capitalise on the terror wasn't explained in any way that made sense. It was a double miss. Instead we were left with a supernatural tale that was messy, hard to follow, and dull. I was frustrated at the story by about a third of the way in, but I persevered in the hope the odd events would be cleared, I'm really not a quitter even with poor literacy. Just as I thought we would receive some explanation as to the point of the preceding pages, the book stopped. Dead, as it were. The cherry on the highly unsatisfactory cake. I imagine we are meant to be left savouring for more. Me personally, too many points of the story were given a little bit of attention, but not enough to bring any sense to the tale. For example, the backstory of his parents, which I'm sure was meant to add to the feeling of horror and doom, is tickled over in just a few pages, just enough so that we know there should be a point there, but with no development. The ending was pointless and frustrating, and I really wish I hadn't bothered making the effort to get through the rest of it.

6 people found this helpful

Chris 11

Procrastination

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2019

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The style of writing put me off this book. It seemed an attempt to use every word in the English language and in the end I gave up trying to plough through all the words to reach the actual story. Sorry.

3 people found this helpful

Kenneth Robins

Graet

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2019

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Great

Hpervez

Decent time pass

Reviewed in Canada on January 16, 2021

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An ok read. Suspenseful that it keeps interest, but writing style is childish and choppy. Certainly not my view of horror. Decent timepass.

Kiran