Twelve Nights at Rotter House, J.W. Ocker
Twelve Nights at Rotter House, J.W. Ocker
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Twelve Nights at Rotter House

Author: J.W. Ocker

Narrator: Matt Godfrey

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2019


Synopsis

Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself.

When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for two weeks, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a bestseller. As with his other gigs, he sets rules for himself: no leaving the house for any reason, refrain from outside contact, and sleep during the day.

When Thomas Ruth, Felix's oldest friend and fellow horror film obsessive, joins him on the project, the two dance around a recent and unspeakably painful rough-patch in their friendship, but eventually fall into their old rhythms of dark humor and movie trivia. That's when things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement. Felix realizes the book he's writing, and his very state of mind, is tilting from nonfiction into all out horror, and the shocking climax answers a question that's been staring these men in the face all along: In Rotter House, who's haunting who?

About J.W. Ocker

J. W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, A Season with the Witch, and Death and Douglas. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Boston Globe, CNN, the Atlantic, and other places people stick writing. He's from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire for more than a decade.


Reviews

4.0 Stars This might be the most fun I have ever had reading a haunted house story! Video Review: [URL not allowed] While I love reading horror, I often struggle when reading haunted house stories. I just find that the subgenre tends to be overdone and exhausted. So it is always a wonderful......more

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Goodreads review by Sadie

Review originally published in SCREAM Mag Nov/Dec 2019 The premise of this one goes like this, Felix Allsey writes travelogues of notorious haunted houses. He finds one called, Rotterdam Mansion that’s a little under the radar--not much information on it. Felix decides he will spend thirteen nights i......more

The main plot of Twelve Nights at Rotter House is overdone - a writer stays in a haunted house to write about his experiences (I just read another book which did it better). But this one had its own unique twist. I enjoyed the book but it isn't one I'd read twice. There wasn't enough horror for me a......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Such a great way to start off the reading year! Although there were a few incredibly violent and scary scenes, this overall was a cozy horror because of the dynamic between Felix and Thomas. I could have listened to them banter about horror movies for 500 pages and would have been happy.......more