The Dead House by Billy O'Callaghan

The Dead House

by Billy O'Callaghan

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Rating (1-5) - 📘📘
Genre - Ghosts, Horror, Supernatural
Format - Hardcover
Pages - 202

*Blurb* 
This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she’s healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife. On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board. What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go.
Ireland is a country haunted by its past. In Billy O'Callaghan's hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot.


*Review*
The Dead House was a dead book to me. I was quite disappointed throughout the whole book. It start off with the main character, Mike, describing Ireland in great detail. I'm not saying that explaining the land wasn't important, but I don't think it needed to take that much of the book before it really started to get interesting. Then it was only interesting for a few pages before it went back to Mike describing the land, his life, feelings and all that. It did pick back up again toward the ending only to, once more, last a few pages. The book was a slight love story, but without all the sappy romance that some books have with a slight twist of ghosts.

I would've given only a 1 book rating but instead gave 2 because I do want to give credit to the detail that the author uses to describe the scenery and feelings he has, but I think that he spent too much time doing that and not enough time on the ghost parts that could've made the story awesome.