THE SHUNNED HOUSE

This horror story is based on a real house in H.P. Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. Narrator Neil Hellegers's understated delivery is ideal for the relatively simple story of a house and the slow growing terror surrounding it. Hellegers aptly depicts the elderly, mild-mannered Dr. Elihu Whipple, an expert on the house's history, and the first-person storyteller, a young man who is intrigued by a house in which many people have died mysteriously. Emotions heighten, and the pace escalates when the two men spend a terrifying night in the house and Dr. Whipple turns into a vampire. It's painful to hear the young man returning to pour acid into the house to destroy his beloved uncle and other malevolent spirits forever. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2014]