The building was designed to be a work of art in-and-of-itself when it was originally constructed, the love child of two artists obsessed with the idea that sex and nature were the supreme forces in our universe. “The Ocean Grand, North West Coast” – Nakata interviews the lone surviving member of a trio of professional renovators who were sent into a unique, abandoned hotel to assess the condition of the building and its contents and make recommendations to the new owners. He fears what will happen if they reach him and attempts to flee.Ĥ. They advance closer whenever he’s not looking at them. Once there he begins to notice footpaths forming in the tall grass headed directly toward him but with no one visible reason them. Patrick’s Chapel, Heysham Head” – Nakata follows the directions left on his machine about a natural amphitheater in place beyond a church and graveyard. This is a VERY creepy story! The descriptions of the old place are evocative and the horror of what he finds within are fantastic. In it he describes the strange events surrounding an abandoned house and its possible connection with a little girl who had gone missing from the area. “The Merry House, Scale Hall” – A father tells Nakata about the mysterious disappearance of his adult son and shows him a long letter the son sent him before he vanished. When the hotel closes down soon afterwards, he starts to see her everywhere.Ģ.
Later, he begins to suspect she’s a ghost. When he goes back to his room, a slump-shouldered woman comes to his door at a late hour asking if she can turn down his bed. “The Elms, Morecambe” – A man, suffering from the grief of losing his wife, returns to a hotel they used to love for his daughter’s wedding. Some focus on his past while others are a result of his being asked to help prove a murder suspect was influenced by supernatural entities. Nakata’s and his investigations are the through-line that take us through each tale.
He then weeds through more than a hundred messages until he settles on a few that seem legitimate. QUIET HOUSES (2011) follows paranormal investigator Richard Nakata as he investigates a series of haunted locations after taking out an ad asking for people who’ve had actual encounters with the supernatural to contact him. So many stories from Simon Kurt Unsworth’s first collection LOST PLACES (2010) ( ) stuck with me it made my decision to buy his new book, QUIET HOUSES, an easy one.
0 kommentar(er)
