Just in time for the season (despite this lovely resurgence of summer weather), I have for you a spooky book review!
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Trespass is the debut novella from Grand Rapids author and independent publisher Christopher Gibbons. The book recounts a firsthand experience with a malicious personal haunting.
At the opening of the tale, we begin several journeys with the unnamed narrator – a house becoming a home, a presence making itself more and more apparent, and changing perceptions of the self and others through a changing faith. A strong plot drives the story forward, though the narrator’s introspection brings the piece its deeper dimension.
With his wife and young children, our protagonist has just purchased a large, 100 year old house in a comfortable east end neighborhood. Although the family loves the stately Tudor, and relishes in the labor that will make it their own, they become uncomfortably aware that someone in the house wants them gone. Through a series of sensations, dreams, visions and disturbances, the narrator learns that the spirit in his home is angry, and nurtures that anger by acting upon it, and perhaps even spreading it to those he torments.