The Haunting of Lamb House

'Perhaps we are nothing but the raw materials of a ghost story.' -- Hugo to Toby Lamb A ghostly apparition, what does it signify? Misfortune? Death? Something lost or unfinished? Are inexplicable happenings evidence of a poltergeist or just the wild imaginings of the observer? Do houses, ancient sites......more

I can't remember where I even picked up this book. It's been on my shelf for a while and I finally read it--very surprising! It's the story of a haunting, but not in the traditional sense. In three separate sections we meet different owners of Lamb House whose stories interlock without it ever being......more

Joan Aiken never disappoints. Those who know her only through her wonderful James III series might imagine that Aiken's writing is by default that charming, slightly nuts, half pastiche/half gently parody channeling of Dickens by way of Georgette Heyer. But reading beyond her children's books you be......more