Twelve Nights at Rotter House

J.W. Ocker

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English

Turner Publishing Company
12 December 2019

Thriller & suspense; Classic horror & ghost stories

"""It's easy to recognize Ocker as a future master of madness after this thrilling haunted house trip.""-Fangoria Magazine

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 13 nights, 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?"

By: J.W. Ocker
Imprint: Turner Publishing Company
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781684423699
ISBN 10: 1684423694
Pages: 282
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Twelve Nights at Rotter House

TWELVE NIGHTS IN ROTTER HOUSE is the best haunted house book I've read in ages. Our skeptical tour guide is a film-fan narrator who knows all the horror tropes-how to riff on them, manipulate them, turn them into something fresh and frightening. I wanted to read the book in 'real time,' to savor it so it would last the full twelve nights, but it got its hooks into me right away and I couldn't put it down once I started. -Norman Prentiss, Bram Stoker Award-winner, author of ODD ADVENTURES WITH YOUR OTHER FATHER