“The Invited” was a fascinating modern-day tale of what happens when you mess with things you don’t understand. If you read along with us but aren’t on Facebook, this blog post is your chance to discuss the book! Below is my review, plus the four questions we discussed in the Spooky Little Book Club: It was a very tight race, but I was thrilled when this recent release won out because the idea of someone building their own haunted house completely intrigued me. With our summer theme of haunted house, I was curious to see what book we would end up reading having just completed “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson last winter.

As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house–a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse–objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. (Um, I’m pretty sure I already do, actually…)īut would I intentionally build a haunted house to live in? Now that’s another story…and one that we explored in the summer 2019 read of the Spooky Little Book Club: “The Invited” by Jennifer McMahon:

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The invited by jennifer mcmahon