by Johnny Compton (Compton)
Eric is on the run with his daughters when he sees an ad to stay in a haunted house. It’s enough money to make a safe new life for them all.
An old woman, terrified by what comes for her cursed family members when they die, hires Eric to stay in the thin house on the hill overlooking her Texas town. Could he be the one to make the house perform on camera to prove the dead are truly active? Then maybe someone will find a way for her to die peacefully.
In The Spite House, the violent Civil War history of a small community endures for those capable of seeing it. Eric’s youngest daughter is both the reason they’re in hiding and the most attuned to death. This book is about the twin mysteries of the spite house and of Eric’s family. The old woman is right about this particular family being a catalyst for the house.
Strong read-alike for The Shining by Stephen King in terms of a father interviewing to watch a building and bringing a special child into contact with it. It also reminded me of The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson because both are by Black writers uncovering a connection between local history and the present. Finally, it reminded me of The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as Told By His Brother) by David Levithan when I read more about why the family was on the run.
( official Johnny Compton web site )
Recommended
by Garren H.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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