His entry begins:
After finishing The Keeper by Tana French, which is scary enough in its depiction of how rumor mills can cause a small community to destroy itself long before the encroaching outside world even gets a chance, I decided to kick October off with a good old ghost story. Diavola, by Jennifer Thorne, is about a dysfunctional family reluctantly gathering for a getaway in a probably-haunted Italian villa. The contrast between the creeping dread within the walls of the increasingly sinister house and the beautiful Tuscan countryside is skin-crawlingly effective...[read on]About House Haunters, from the publisher:
From Bram Stoker Award finalist KC Jones comes House Haunters, a fast-paced thrill ride perfect for fans of How to Sell a Haunted House and Play Nice, in which a skeptical reality TV showVisit KC Jones's website.producer and a misanthropic ghosthunter must team up to survive a shoot from hell.
Grace Wonderly needs a hit show, or her career is dead. But saving her job might just kill her.
With her studio relying on AI to greenlight new projects, finding the next breakout series is Grace's only shot to save her job. And her sanity.
Her solution may be Frank Pendleton: a brilliant but abrasive - and admittedly handsome - ghost hunter who claims he can’t feel fear, making him uniquely attuned to the paranormal.
Frank is either a fraud or the real deal. Skeptical, but hoping for TV gold, Grace assembles a crew to shoot a proof of concept.
But when the production descends into a nightmare, Grace is forced to face the impossible: ghosts are real, and though cold and distant, Frank may be their only chance of getting out alive.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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