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Even New Houses Can Be Haunted

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

January 9, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is the only horror novel Anne Rivers Siddons ever wrote, and the only book of hers I’ve ever read, so I feel like we were on some sort of haunted parallel footing here. This is a very well done haunted house story written in a lyrical style, but with a lot of brutal, horrible scenes. The contrast between the nice, aesthetic portions of the book and the growing realization that a nasty little scene is right around the next page makes for a tension-filled […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Anne Rivers Siddons, evil house, haunting, horror, perfect marriage, Southern Gothic

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Anne Rivers Siddons, evil house, haunting, horror, perfect marriage, Southern Gothic ·
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Mean Girls

October 9, 2017 by Lynn Leave a Comment

I thought I had read all of Anne Rivers Siddons but I stumbled across The Girls of August at a tag sale, and the cover didn’t look familiar, so I picked it up for about $2. This is a different path than the one Siddons normally takes, and I’m not sure I liked it all that much. Maddy, Barbara, Melinda, and Rachel meet when their husbands are in medical school, and together, they begin a traditional of going to a beach house for a week […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anne Rivers Siddons, The Mama

Lynn's CBR9 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anne Rivers Siddons, The Mama ·
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