Twelve Nights at Rotter House

A 4.5 star for me.

A very good haunted house story with a deep subplot.

The progression of the supernatural phenomenon follow's the development of the relationship (or the remaking of that relationship) between Felix and Thomas, best friends navigating through a fallout.

The character building is incredibly good. The author brings us along a rollercoaster ride of weird, terrifying, and even grisly phenomenon that progressively gets worse and worse over the course of those twelve nights and through the distinct phases of relationship rebuilding.

Both Felix and Thomas are horror movie buffs much to the delight of all movie-buff-readers out there. I have a challenge for you, try to win the multiple horror movie wars they play, no cheating!

This has all the haunted house tropes, but they are presented in such a way that it doesn't feel cheesy or old. A very brilliant trick from the author.

Overall, it's a well build story with an ending that I did not expect at all.

This one is sticking in my mind, lingering like a spectacle, an entity from behind, a “full-torso-apparition casually looking up books in a library.”

I recommend this one to all the horror-movie-buffs out there, but also to all of you atmospheric, numinous, grim, spooky, hunted house fans.