The Haunt

by John Fogarty

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0445210052
• ISBN13: 9780445210059
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A rare masterful gothic novel

This is one of those novels where you get drawn by the characters, by the setting, by the haunting horror slowly and carefully. It's not a boring book, it's just very well written. The atmosphere is all gothic and very, very haunting. A young professor and his girlfriend go to Ireland when he finds out about an inheritance that belongs to him. Once there, strange visions and happenings begin to take shape. Some of the scenes are very scary and gory, but superbly described. In a way, this is a Lovecraft-like novel. Wish the author could write more.

Simply, brilliant!

It is not every day that one delights in the discovery of a new 'gothic' author in this shallow, digitized and thus desensitized world! Hail to Fogarty who still holds true to his artform without compromise.

The Haunt, John Fogarty, co-author of Online Learning Today

The Haunt is Fogarty's first published novel -- a spine-tingling excursion into the realm of Gothic Horror. Archeology professor Mike O'Sullivan and his girlfriend Mary travel to Ireland to escape the living nightmare of a psychotic campus killer. Once in County Cork, Mike uncovers evidence of an ancient family secret so horrible the locals refuse to speak of it. Gradually, Mike's love for his ancestry takes a frightening, obsessive turn. Soon, he discovers a sinister legacy of forbidden ritual, one that worships an evil older than time. He learns, to his mounting horror, that it has turned the fog-shrouded hills and a house of unspeakable terrors into its own savage, sacrificial hunting ground. And across time and the countryside, Mike and Mary are drawn into a terrifying, inescapable realm on madness' razor edge, one in which nightmare and reality are one and the same...An auspicious debut by the author of "Online Learning Today: Strategies That Work," and the new psycho-thriller, "Piggies."

Good, old fashioned gothic horror...smart AND scary

This is the kind of book they just don't publish anymore. Reminded me a lot of Ramsey Campbell and the young Stephen King -- with a touch of ol' H.P. Lovecraft. Scary, spooky, atmospheric horror that builds layer upon layer, notch upon notch, until the full, mind-blasting implications of all that's going on simply rock your world to its bottom-most depths. You'll be dreaming (nightmares) about this one for weeks after you finish it.What else has this Fogarty written since then? I saw he's got some computer/training book out, with Heather Shea, called "Online Learning Today: Strategies of Sort Sort." If it's the same guy, then I'd like to read that one, too--even if it is a computer book!