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Haunting of Ashburn House
by Darcy Coates
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is the second book I’ve read by Darcy Coates and as I said before, she is slowly becoming one of my favorite horror authors.
The Haunting Of Ashburn House is a wonderfully eerie story. I loved the all too familiar atmosphere of the classic, old, looming house secluded from the small town below and I loved the uneasy tension that would build up as the slightly naive protagonist discovered the homes mysteries, quite literally carved into the walls. While this book is chalk full of classic haunted house tropes (one of which had me rolling my eyes), it still remains delightfully original.
Listen, Coates isn’t trying to redefine or break new ground in the horror genre here. Her writing isn’t flowery, but extremely fluid which makes her stories easy to digest. This is what I would call comfort horror. I’ll be grabbing way more of her books to read in-between all the other horror novels that bend my mind and wrench my stomach. There is nothing quite like reading a classic haunted house story under a dim candle light.
The Haunting Of Ashburn House is a wonderfully eerie story. I loved the all too familiar atmosphere of the classic, old, looming house secluded from the small town below and I loved the uneasy tension that would build up as the slightly naive protagonist discovered the homes mysteries, quite literally carved into the walls. While this book is chalk full of classic haunted house tropes (one of which had me rolling my eyes), it still remains delightfully original.
Listen, Coates isn’t trying to redefine or break new ground in the horror genre here. Her writing isn’t flowery, but extremely fluid which makes her stories easy to digest. This is what I would call comfort horror. I’ll be grabbing way more of her books to read in-between all the other horror novels that bend my mind and wrench my stomach. There is nothing quite like reading a classic haunted house story under a dim candle light.