![]() Once Mike has fixed all the safety and structural problems in the house, Leo’s team turn all the rooms into horror rooms based around famous films and books. Hopefully with bags of cash in the bank, the big closing night will be 31st October itself. The new lease holder (Leo) does not intend to live in the premise, instead he turns it into a themed haunted house, which will open a month before Halloween. The house is built beside an old cemetery and has been empty for many years with everything going to wrack and ruin. New publishers in the horror scene, Flame Tree Press, have impressed me with the quality of their releases thus far, but this cliché-ridden bore-fest falls well short of the high standards they have set themselves.Ī down on his luck carpenter, Mike Kostner, gets a job renovating an old house which is supposed to be haunted by a witch. The horror element lacks no ‘drip, drip’ effect and everything is just so clunkily obvious, it became tiresome very quickly. ![]() I do not think this novel has one single twist or major unexpected turn and that’s a significant problem in a supernatural novel. ![]() It may have a gruesome climax with an impressive body count, but it lacks scares, atmosphere, and ultimately fails because everything about it from page one to the final sequence is totally predictable and telegraphed. ![]() In a crowded haunted house genre, The House by the Cemetery just does not have enough going on to raise itself from the pack instead it reeks of ‘I’ve read this before’ overfamiliarity. ![]()
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