House of Spirits & Whispers: The True Story of a Haunted House

by Annie Wilder

We had been instructed to enter by the back door. That's the part of the house where the old man had lived. It was where he still lived. Turns out he was watching us that day too, silent and heavy as the air, bound to the earth and his former home.

In 1994, Annie Wilder and her children moved into a 100-year-old house in a historic Mississippi River town. Beautiful but spooky, the house had been on the market for six months with no offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738707775
• ISBN13: 9780738707778
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

My favorite subject- Paranormal.

I really loved this well written, interesting, suspending recant of the Author's decade of experiences in her own home.

Great book for ghost thrill seekers

Anyone who loves to read ghost adventures etc. will love this book....the author is really a wonderful writer, easy and quick to read as though she is talking to you...couldn't put it down..

Wonderfully written true story.

I bought the book after hearing a radio interview with the author. Immediately after I started the first chapter I was sucked in. Annie Wilder's writing is so rich in her descriptions of the house and the energy around it that I felt as if I was there. The event that happened give you that nice chill down your spine which you look for in a ghost story. What I also enjoyed was the author's evolution from terror to learning how to accept and live with the ghost in her new house. The book also contains floor plans and a who's who guide so you can quickly get to know her world. This is a definite "must have". Hope to hear more from this author.

Excelent book

I live in a haunted house myself and this is just the type of book I myself would write. At first I thought this would be a "Amityville Horror" type book, but was pleasantly surprised it was not. Order this book for a realistic portrayal of what it is really like to live in a haunted house. Loved this book!!

Thrill ride experience in book form

Very few books in this genre actually scare me. This book is one of the rare finds that truly does hold the reader captive from one heart pounding chapter to the next. From the opening pages of Chapter 1 right through the end of the book, Annie Wilder delivers a fantastic true account of her experiences with the paranormal as it takes residence in her dream home. I would reccomend this book to anyone that wants a genuine scare and doesn't mind looking over their shoulder for some time after reading it.

Spooky, quirky, suspenseful and even funny...

Just in time for Halloween! If you enjoy some real personality, quirkiness and spiritual questing served alongside your ghostly manifestations and other hair-raising events, then what are you waiting for? Throw this one in the shopping cart. Especially because Leon (the brooding, tobacco-chewing chief ghost at Annie Wilder's house) might get even tougher to live with if "his" book gets less than its due. Full disclosure: The author is a friend, I took a look at the manuscript early on, and I've been to her magical, spooky house 8 or 10 times. Weird things definitely happen there. I stayed there one night and had a house-inspired, ghosty dream. In my dream, a little boy was standing in the room watching me sleep. Then a bunch of Annie's relatives started filing into the bedroom. Feeling a little self-conscious, I got up and left the room. That was when I found a new room in her house--one that doesn't actually exist (physically, anyway). It was long and narrow like a portrait gallery, and there were paintings on the wall that changed scenes when I looked away. One, I remember, started out as a picture of a nice white brick farmhouse, then changed to something else. After I woke up and told Annie about the dream, she got an odd look on her face, and said that she used to have a painting like that. Yikes. Her story is suspenseful, there's a full cast of characters and cats, and the writing is quite well done. There is a lot to sink your teeth into: she incorporates various alternative spirituality ideas and practices into the story as part of her life in the house--interesting and educational, too. Leon the Ghost becomes incorporated into the family and repair projects-kind of a "Ghost and Mrs. Muir" thing (without the romance). Read it. Annie really is an original. What else would you call a woman who is much more afraid of snakes than of being haunted?

Excellent Haunted House Tale

Annie Wilder and her teenage children purchase a 100 year old home and inherit ghosts galore. Annie and her children immediately begin to have paranormal experiences that keep them awake night and afraid even in the day. Apparently the house is not only haunted but is a way station for those spirits crossing to the other site! Annie is open minded and soon learns to communicate with the ghosts and to help some of them cross over to the other site. This true life story is a compelling read that will keep you up at night.