Author: Tamara Thorne
Translator: Yuseon Hwang
Publisher: Hwangguemgaji
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About This Book
Its violent, sordid past is what draws
bestselling author David Masters to infamous Victorian mansion called Baudey
House. Its shrouded history of madness and murder is just the inspiration he
needs to write his ultimate masterpiece of horror. But what waits for David and
his sixteen-year-old daughter, Amber, at Baudey House, is more terrifying than
any legend...
First comes the sultry hint of jasmine... followed by the foul stench of decay.
It is the dead, seducing the living, in an age-old ritual of perverted desire
and unholy blood lust. For David and Amber, an unspeakable possession has
begun...
[Review of HAUNTED by William D. Gagliani]
Haunted leaps into gear with convincingly realistic paranormal events, an echo
of Richard Matheson's classic Hell House, and an attitude all its own. Tamara
Thorne knows what she's about, and proves it right out of the gate -- plunging
you into a moody supernatural fog and never letting the breathless pace flag for
a second.
When famous horror novelist David Masters and Amber, his daughter, move into
Baudey House, the old mansion's reputation as one-time brothel now haunted by
scads of ghosts is part of the attraction. David wants to set his next
bestseller ("Mephisto Palace") there. The two are old hands at experiencing real
and fraudulent hauntings, but the popularly re-named Body House truly does
harbor various spirits -- some neutral, others benevolent, and some evil beyond
measure.
Built on a strip of land jutting into the ocean and crowned by a spooky old
lighthouse -- also haunted, according to legend -- the house sports leftover
paraphernalia of its origins: phallic doorknobs, erotic stained glass, and
cubicle-like "business" rooms. Lizzie Baudey had built the brothel at the turn
of the century, but also earned a reputation as a genteel woman whose workers
were treated with love and true caring. Her daughter, on the other hand, was the
twisted Christabel -- whose sexual deviancy and budding voodoo powers would
eventually destroy her own mother, as well as a score of customers and other
visitors throughout the years, as she sought eternal life and freedom from her
magical prison.
David and Amber almost too late realize the extent of Christabel's evil. Aided
by Eric (a true psychic), a sympathetic police chief, and the ghost of Lizzie
Baudey, they must face Christabel's growing power and stop her from reclaiming
her hidden physical body. In the process, they encounter a beautiful but
predatory real estate agent, a group of fanatical channelers, a Geraldo-like
television personality who itches to find Christabel's long-lost torture chamber
beneath the house, and sundry nasties served up by both the nearby town and the
house itself. Not to mention a terrifying collection of bizarre ceramic voodoo
dolls fashioned by Christabel herself.
In the exciting confrontation, David Masters must face his demons and reclaim
his own lost love in order to survive. Gripping, gory, and generally grisly,
this is a novel that delivers with punch. Using her extensive background in the
investigation of paranormal phenomena, Tamara Thorne -- actually a pseudonymous
Chris Curry -- brings to bear the entire haunted house arsenal (and then some),
sharpening its edge with inside knowledge and true wit. When describing the
eerie and slippery "cold spots" that slide up and down people's arms, for
instance, there is no doubt she is relying upon her own experiences.
In Haunted, Thorne pits appealing characters against a diabolical haunting that
resonates with charged eroticism and enough bump-in-the-night goings-on to keep
readers wide-eyed and wide-awake past any bedtime.
This one turns its own pages!
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