The narration on this one was good. This is a gothic horror novel, and the atmosphere was well done. The plot was tough to follow though.

Thank you NetGalley and OrangeSky audio for the advance audio book copy.

While the narration was good, I have learned that I do not enjoy listening to horror novels. I find it hard to picture what is taking place while I am focused on listening. So I did not find this book even remotely scary or chilling. I think I need to read the book to get a better feel for the characters.

Someone else may have the mental capacity to listen to and picture the story at the same time and enjoy this book more than I did.

Good story with very good narration. Not just a usual haunted house story. Another winner from Douglas Clegg!

This is a gothic novel. It does a great job putting you in a dark place of the house however it was a bit convoluted and I couldn't really get into it.

This story has a lot of potential. There is definitely something creepy about Harrow house. The more you delve in the more the suspense builds. I found this story to be more creepy rather than scary.

Tiedemann's narration fit the book like a glove. I found the actually story, however, to be a bit convuluted.

Nightmare House is a gothic novel written in a style reminiscent of the Victorian-era classics. I felt a heavy influence of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw in the story’s execution.

The house, a large, eerie mansion, is the focus, almost as if it’s another character. Unfortunately, I was never able to “see” it. Description is scant in this respect, so I couldn’t envision any of the rooms, much less the entire house.

Pacing is exceedingly slow through the first three-quarters of what is a fairly short novel. I confess to being indifferent about it all.

The final quarter finally picks up and the chilling aspects of the gothic genre appear. Unfortunately, this part also suffers from an abundance of exposition, during which characters explain themselves to death. Most of this story is told in this way. It’s not happening now, but instead is something related from one character to another, so we readers are removed from the intensity and fear.

I listened to this on audio and, while I didn’t love the story, I did enjoy the narration.

I love scary books but haven’t yet listened to an Audio version of one. With a title like Nightmare House, I thought this would be a great ‘first scary audiobook’ read for me.

Ethan Gravesend has inherited a sinister mansion and upon his return, old memories from his childhood mix with new, creepy events in this creepy gothic story set in the early 1900’s.

The creepy factor was pretty high for me in a couple of scenes. The gothic set-up before the action starts was pretty good. I was a little disinterested in the story to begin with but at about chapter 3 I was pretty invested.

This book was previously published in 2004 according to GoodReads but the audio version is releasing this month. The narrator did a great job with the story and if gothic, haunted houses are your thing, I’d recommend picking this one up!

Nightmare House was quite the experience…

I’ll be completely honest in confessing I had never heard of this book (this series) at all, but for some reason, when I saw the audiobook and read what little description it provided, I was intrigued…

I definitely do not regret listening to this!

At first, I was a bit confused by the early descriptions and then timeline changes between the events of the story and the present time in which the main character is actually telling us the story.

But then I started to get sucked into the story very quickly, the descriptions of this eerie and labyrinthic house (it gave me vibes of the Winchester house and its many rooms… you’ll understand if you’ve seen the movie or know the story of the house and then read or listen to Nightmare House).

Ethan, who’s real name is very different and he makes sure to tell us that at the start of the book, has just arrived at Harrow House, as it was left to him by his late grandfather.

Ethan has only vague memories of being in the house as small child, but as the days move on, he starts to remember more things that happened when he was a child and how terrifying and haunted the house really was.
Now as an adult, he starts to realize that the rumors and whispers of Harrow House being haunted may be true after all, and that his grandfather was not the person he thought. Maybe he didn’t even know his grandfather at all, for what Ethan comes to discover hidden within the walls and rooms of Harrow is too daunting, horrifying and ghostly to be just mere rumors.

I really liked how the creepiness and bone-chilling events increased at an almost alarming rate with the progression of the story.

The secrets revealed and the events left me shocked, as I didn’t expect a lot of what happened.

I’m hoping this isn’t a spoiler, but given that Ethan finishes telling this story in his old age, it left me wondering what else happened at Harrow House in all the years in between this story and the end of the book, but I guess that is why this is just the first book in the series, and I’m very eager to read or listen to the next one as soon as possible.
I’m very curious…

I appreciated the little reference that was given to the fact that the infamous and very real Lizzie Borden also came into contact with Ethan after a certain set of events.


Thank you to NetGalley and OrangeSky Audio for letting me listen to this audiobook in exchange of my opinion and honest review.

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The first book in the Harrow House series gives us Ethan Gravesend who returns to his grandfathers estate to claim it as his inheritance. Ethan tells us the story of his youth back in the 1920’s and of the mystery that surrounds Nightmare House, as it is called by the locals. Tales of a twisted family tree, a house with secret rooms, and what lays hidden inside.
This felt like it was a YA story and while there were ghosts and suspense, it never felt like a horror. It was a great dark mystery with little to no gore and just a few uncomfortable decisions that cross the boundary of sanity. This was a short book and I felt like there was plenty of room to get to know the characters better. I just wanted more to give a better depth to everyone.
Thanks to NetGalley and Orange Sky Audio for a copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
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I received a copy of this audio book through netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This started off so strong. I was hooked within the first 5 minutes. The characters started off with a bang... the story was fascinating... then boom the second part started and I’m not sure what happened but it just lost me. I felt like the characters and the story dropped off and it left me wishing it had been as strong as the first part.

The narrator did a great job, however by the time that the second part started falling off for me I found myself hating his voice.

I might give this book another chance and read the pages, maybe that would help me feel like the second part was as strong as the first... right now however this book just didn’t hit on all cylinders for me.

I did not expect this book to be as eerie as it was. The narration was perfect and the timing worked well. There was such a slow build up and creepy feeling throughout.. Will definitely ready rest of the books in this series

Reading this book brought back memories of some other classic horror stories.

Point being, this book is a jumble of classic horror books with a dash of the occult. The characters are forgettable and the plot didn't really hold that much interest for me. It did pick up at 80% with a twist that really through me for a loop, so it a way it was worth it.

Narrator comments: Gary Tiedemann. Not a bad narrator for a horror story. I listened at 2.0.

Can a house be evil? Or is it the sins of the humans that live inside the house that corrupt the bricks and stone of Harrow House? When Ethan Gravesend inherits the estate from his grandfather, he thinks he knows. Ghosts have no place in the new, modern 20th century. He’s about to learn otherwise. Tiederman’s narration is like being told a ghost story by a friend around a campfire, fun, frightening and captivating