![]() They barely survive the house’s negative vibes and move away with much less than they moved in with, including their sanity. Colquett and her devoted husband, Walter, watch as family after family moves into the house and pay a deadly and horrific price for their love of the stunning home.įirst come the Harrelson’s, with the childish, spoiled Pie, her doting husband, Buddy, and all their family secrets. ![]() The narrator of the story, Colquitt Kennedy, introduces us first to the architect: Kim Dougherty, a young and ambitious man who puts his literal heart and soul into this modern creation that is built on the last remaining natural space of a lovely Southern neighborhood populated with upper-income white folks. Throughout the book the mind wonders - is it the house itself that harbors this evil force, the wickedness of the people who live in it, or the strange and enigmatic architect who created it? What makes this particular story so chilling and so different from the usual “things that go bump in the night” stories is the focus on an invisible force that affects the behavior of all who dare enter, and live in, the house. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love a good haunted house story, and popular Southern novelist Anne Rivers Siddons offers up one truly haunting haunted house in The House Next Door. ![]()
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