A review by dnemec
The House by the Cemetery by John Everson

3.0

Perry has decided that the perfect place to build a haunted house attraction is in an actual haunted house. He gets his friend Mike, who is a carpenter struggling for work, to fix up the house enough so that it's safe for horror lovers to traipse through all October. Mike, desperate to pay his bills, takes the offer and begins to fix it up himself. But weird things keep happening: the basement has animal sacrifices, he finds a wall with human bones behind it, and two young women keep showing up to "help" him out.

Meanwhile, the haunting coordinators plan to go all out creating an homage to a horror movie in each room. The set designers, make-up artists, and actors are all ready to deck the house out. And it's a huge success, well, except for one thing...

The march up to the conclusion is bloody and gore-filled, but a bit predictable. Overall, it was fairly fun though!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.