Resurrecting My Childhood Ghosts. It’s a paperback that cost 45 cents when it was brand new. It’s a little more squat and wide than a traditional mass | Tagged Bohjalian, Poe, Shirley Jackson, The Haunting, The Night Strangers. Uncategorized. Synopsis. From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home’s new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Book Summary. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his seat regional jet in Lake Champlain due .
Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian (, Hardcover) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Discover The Night Strangers as it's meant to be heard, narrated by Alison Fraser, Mark Bramhall. Free trial available! is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters. While Chris Bohjalian isn't quite in my upper pantheon of favorite authors, he's rapidly working his way up the list. And his latest novel "The Night Strangers" just may be the book that puts him over the top. It's interesting to read this novel while attempting to watch the new FX series "American Horror Story.".
Chris Bohjalian’s 13th novel, “The Night Strangers,” begins with a harrowing description of a pilot’s attempt to ditch his jet, which has struck a flock of geese shortly after takeoff. “The Night Strangers boasts all the trappings of a classic Gothic horror story, reminiscent in places of the spousal secrets in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ the thrills of ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ and the psychological frights of Daphne du MaurierA perfect book for Halloween. The Night Strangers was not Bohjalian's typical novel. In this one he combines fascinating details about witchcraft, mental illness and plane crashes within a chilling and sometimes gory framework. I can see how some reviewers might be disappointed as the different plot elements don't always mesh and the spooky atmosphere can get muddled within the plot.
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