The Haunting of Edward House
The Haunting of Edward House
By Amy Cross
The Sexton’s musings (spoilers are likely):
I can feel it...this is going to be an angry one for me. So many people not believing. Not believing even though the fear in their loved-ones eyes is real. Always so closed off! An open mind is the best way to approach life. Really it seems to me that there is just one person in this story that does not believe so really the majority wins the day!
Edward House
This dude has some problems. He also has a wife that has been placating him for the entire 14 years they've been married. His parents are now both deceased (Father killed by the cops back when he was a kid and his mother recently died in a mental health facility). His family was terrorized by an evil spirit when he and Meg were young. His little sister, Meg, saves his ass. He's tried to distance himself from what happened and can't come to terms with the fact that it may have only been the beginning. I really can't blame him for wanting to try and put it behind him but by ignoring the past he gets bitten hard when it rears its head again. The thing that gets me is that Molly, his daughter actually was seeing things before Meg even showed up at the house. But he just won't listen and betrays the sister that once saved his life. Then to my surprise he agrees to stop believing in ghosts. This is the doing of his loving, lying, ignorant wife. Then with about a quarter of the story left he makes a very stupid decision and goes to the house by himself. They have run away in the middle of the night because the house starts to transform in to a twisted version of the old house that Meg and Edward lived in as children. I mean Molly almost dying didn't get them out of there but hey who am I to criticize their parenting methods.
Caroline House
This woman needs to get her head out of her ass! She is the lone individual that simply denies the possibility that there us something to what happened to her husband as a child or that something is happening in her own home currently. Honestly I would have a better safe than sorry attitude with this but she just can't seem to wrap her head around something that does not fit her narrative/belief system. Then suddenly she does a 180 with a quarter of the story left. Now I understand not believing something until you see it with your own eyes but at least keep an open mind. Which once she sees it with her own eye she does, without too much disbelief internal dialogue, come to believe that there is something supernatural going on. So I guess I have to give her that. The thing that pisses me off is that she does not give a second thought to Meg. Meg is the one that knows all about this shit.
Molly House
I feel bad for this kid. She is terrified and the only one she has to go to, in the beginning, is her unbelieving mother because, like most children her age, she listens to her mother and does not bring these things up with her father. Her mother has told her that it would distress her father and being a good kid, she does not want to cause her father discomfort. When she does gain a person who believes her and understands her fear (Aunt Meg) both her parents label her as crazy. So now does Molly think she's crazy? Not good parenting guys. She's a good kid and I feel like her parents treat her like she's five when she's actually eight. She seems like she's smart and observant. She knows what's going on. Dogs and kids know things...adults should listen more often.
Megan House (Meg)
For the most part I like Meg. I feel like she means very well. I just feel that she does, in some aspects, go about her rescue the wrong way. Out of all of the characters in this book I feel like Meg gets betrayed and abandoned by those that she trusted and loved. It's horrible. I'm mad for her. She only showed up trying to help. In fact, she was trying to save the life of her niece and her brother. And how does her brother and sister-on-law thank her for that...they turn her into the cops for the arson on the old house and then Edward has her committed to a psychiatric hospital. Which as the story moves on she is there for a year. Then the shit hits the fan and she has to figure out how she is going to escape. Honestly I think she should leave Edward to his fate but I suppose Molly is worth saving.
Ellen Deavers and her son Percy
Ellen may have had her issues while she was alive but it seems that she is trying to make up for what she allegedly did but trying to stop her son. Makes me wonder if if her son has been evil from day one. I'm willing to bet that this kid has always been the issue. That kid is fucked! Percy is one of those kids that should be taken out of this world for the sake of everyone around him and all the stray cats in the world. The little fucker nails, hangs, impales stray cats on his neighborhood’s trees. All the neighbors know it's him. I don't think there is enough help in the universe to help him. He's a evil little shit! Ellen was just overly protective of him. She love bombs the kid. Let's him run the house hold. Lady he's a kid! A bad, evil kid. A kid that his own father could not stand. His father who would not stand and watch him verbally and physically abuse his mother. The kid is poison and continues to be poison in death. I guess death does not take the sociopath out of the boy!
Closing thoughts:
Okay so I lied...there were a couple of characters that set me off. You have to admit it got a little frustrating. It's a decent story. Told well through time frame changes and all but sometimes I just can't with people. Which makes them realistic because I'm that way with real people too.
What we find out in the epilogue makes me angry. Never make a deal with the devil. There is always a twist or a betrayal that follows. I mean the little shit could not even keep his end of the bargain for a year. Let alone the agreed upon time frame. I hope that Edward does find some way to send that waste of ectoplasm to where he belongs. The kid needs to be taught a lesson.
