So read on based on your comfort with such spoiler territory D. This piece contains minor spoilers for certain incidents in the novel but the ending and all major twists are left out of the discussion. First up, is Jac Jemc’s The Grip Of It which is simultaneously the best and the scariest haunted house story I’ve ever read! I’d read haunted house novels and ruminate on when, if I were living within the events of the novel, I’d move the heck out of that house. So I thought, in honor of Halloween and all things scary and spooky, haunted and horrific, macabre and malevolent, I’d write a li’l series about this.
That’s what bankruptcy’s for! Getting away from ghosts! In fact, imagining when I’d move and the alternate story it would lead to as I watch/read a scary haunted house story is one of my horror coping mechanisms. I don’t care if I was financially in debt and didn’t have the money or means to sell and buy again.
Sure, sometimes you’re snowed in at the Overlook and there’s no conceivable way to get out but most times, if I was in the protagonist’s shoes, I’d just up and move. It’s the age-old question of the haunted house genre, isn’t it? Why wouldn’t they just move? It crosses my mind with every haunted house movie I watch or novel I read.
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