Full name: The Dead House: A Novel

Author: Billy O'Callaghan Year: 2017 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781628729139 1628729139

This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she's healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife. On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board. What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go. Ireland is a country haunted by its past. In Billy O'Callaghan's hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot. Similar books: The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle The Uncanny by Andrew Klavan The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill The Mist In The Mirror by Susan Hill Starter House by Sonja Condit The Woman in Black by Susan Hill A Face at the Window by Dennis McFarland The Small Hand by Susan Hill Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu by J. Sheridan LeFanu A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi The Invited by Jennifer McMahon Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell Last Days by Adam Nevill The Supernaturals by David L. Golemon Come Closer by Sara Gran The Association by Bentley Little