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 “Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."– Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.

Margaret is not most people.

Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep. Ghosts Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Haunted Scary Paranormal Exciting Fiction
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I love haunted house stories and this one was very enjoyable and well narrated. The ending was done nicely, which doesn't happen that often in horror / paranormal books.
However, please take into consideration trigger warnings for violence and domestic abuse - if this is something that would cause you distress, I think it's better to skip this book.

Great haunted house story

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I loved the story but narrator shouts a lot which is annoying and puts you off the story

so shouty!

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I feel narrators are a MASSIVE part of an audio books, and this narrator was fab. The story was written well , and made you really see things from margarets prospective. I do feel a massive opportunity was missed to really delve more into the masters past and more from his side and more back storys from the characters within the house. It was a good listen but it just missed that element of surprise or a big twist and maybe felt like the ending was rushed a bit.

a good listen to pass time

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3.5 stars rounded down.

Im not sure how I feel about this book.

I enjoyed the story, but I didn't like how it was pieced together.

For me the book was too slow; I did not enjoy how much the book jumped back and forth. I struggled to keep up with where I was up to. I don't mind a flashback once or twice, but it seems like every other thought was a flashback. It just made the book feel broken.

But the story and concept was good.

3.5/5

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This was my first horror book on audible, very well written, excellent narration, had me captured from the start, have listened to it 3 times now

Excellent twists and turns

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