No, this is not vulnerable heroine tiptoeing through the attic by candlelight horror it’s much more subtle and disturbing.
One of the characters makes a joke about the house being built on ancient Indian burial ground, but that’s about it. Also, Anne Rivers Siddons doesn’t use any of the tropes that a dedicated horror author might struggle to keep out of a haunted house book. The stuff going on between the characters is great, and the story is well told. This is probably one of the book’s strengths. It was stupid of me to assume that this book wouldn’t be good because the author wasn’t a dedicated horror author. I won’t ruin the story by revealing details, but I will say some of the unfortunate turns are utterly scandalous! Bad stuff happens to everyone who lives in or even enters this place. I did not expect a masterfully written work of psychological terror that was almost impossible to put down.Ī house is built on a plot of land beside a rich couple’s house in Georgia, USA. I thought I was going to read about chains rattling in the night and books flying off shelves of their own accord. I expected a boring attempt at a haunted house story. The title is dull (there are several other novels with the same name), the cover is a picture of a house, and I had read that this novel was the only work of horror that the author ever wrote. Of all the books that Stephen King discusses in his Danse Macabre, Anne Rivers Siddons’ The House Next Door was the one I least wanted to read. The House Next Door – Anne Rivers Siddons
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