Tuesday, November 29, 2011

The Night Strangers

The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian  375 pp.

Captain Chip Linton is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after ditching the plane he was piloting, causing the death of 39 people. He moves with his wife and twin daughters to a small New Hampshire town in hopes of getting away from the publicity and healing from the trauma. But in the basement of the Victorian house they buy is a mysterious door sealed shut with 39 bolts. Why was it so tightly sealed and is there a connection to the suicide of one of the twin boys who lived in the house decades before? Chip begins to hear voices in the house and soon the apparitions begin. Is he losing his mind from the guilt he feels over the victims of the crash? In addition, a strange group of women, all named after plants and proclaiming to be "herbalists", have taken a strange interest in the twin 5th graders. Are the women really trying to be helpful or is there something more sinister in their plans? This is a good, creepy tale.

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