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Author: John Searles | Language: English | ISBN: B00BATIK3E | Format: PDF, EPUB

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John Searles’s Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ultimately, a daughter’s discovery of a dark and unexpected mystery.

Sylvie Mason’s parents have an unusual occupation—helping “haunted souls” find peace. After receiving a strange phone call one winter’s night, they leave the house and are later murdered in an old church in a horrifying act of violence.

A year later, Sylvie is living in the care of her older sister, who may be to blame for what happened to their parents. Now, the inquisitive teenager pursues the mystery, moving closer to the knowledge of what occurred that night—and to the truth about her family’s past and the secrets that have haunted them for years.

Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King’s works with the compelling quirkiness of John Irving’s beloved novels, Help for the Haunted is that rare story that brings to life a richly imagined and wholly original world.

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• File Size: 813 KB
• Print Length: 368 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (September 17, 2013)
• Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
  
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00BATIK3E
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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John Searles' new novel is one of those rare books that envelops, absorbs, and encompasses you completely. From the very first chapter I was completely drawn into the world Searles created: it's 1989, and Sylvie and Rose Mason are the daughters of religious ghost hunters. Very late one winter's night the Masons are called to the town church to meet Rose, who has run off again. Sylvie waits in the car, until a terrible noise urges her inside. Rose isn't there, but a murdered is. Another shot rings out, and Sylvie awakens at the hospital with tinnitus, an orphan. Released into the care of her angry, wild older sister (who has finally turned up), Sylvie must try to come to terms with her new life, her estranged relationship with Rose, the mockery of the town for her parents' questionable livelihood, and all that she never really knew about her parents.

The synopsis and blurbs from other authors suggest that this will be a scary haunted house tale or riveting thriller. These statements are somewhat misleading. There is certainly an undercurrent of menace running through the novel. The Masons are involved in very mysterious activities, giving lectures on spirit activity and meeting with supposedly haunted people. They're loosely based on Ed and Lorraine Warren, ghost hunters involved in many supernatural investigations throughout the 70s and 80s. The occult museum in the basement and haunted doll locked in a case are borrowed from the Warrens. The gothic elements of the story add a spooky tone throughout, but this is where the `ghost story' plotline ends.

Author, John Searles wrote an excellent, very wicked, murder/thriller and from Chapter one I was hooked..The vivid imagery had me lost in this fictious, "Ghost Hunters'" type world...At times I actually found it to be frightening, not so much with the supernatural but, what was going on behind closed doors..Of course, once you start reading the book and you find out what parents do for a living makes it dysfunctional to begin with..Perfect depiction of what it's like as children to have to grow up in an environment with fanatical ideology...The paranormal, religion, and demonic beliefs blended so realistically in this story that it kept you on edge all the way to the unbelievable, twisted ending..It shocked and made me feel angry..

Great in-depth characterization of the main players...Especially, of the daughters: sweet, intelligent, good girl Sylvie Mason and rebellious, hateful, angst teenager, Rose Mason..The story had a very intricate, complicated plot that you didn't know what was real or not...Then add the eerie, artifacts to the basement and for a minute I thought I was watching the 2013 film, "The Conjuring"...After seeing that in the theater I almost didn't want to find myself in that place again.This story is completely different after you find out about the basement and what goes on down there..It takes a turn that you don't see coming which makes it thought provoking, very sad and keeps you guessing....

The premise is written above and I not going to repeat it..The Mason's claim to see evil on the outside but why are they blind in their own home...When the father, Sylvester Mason places that ad in the newspaper,"Help For The Haunted" their whole family world will start to disintegrate...They become pariahs in their community..

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