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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Book Review: Hollow House by Greg Chapman

Hollow House has been recommended for a Bram Stoker nomination.

Hollow House
by Greg Chapman
July 8, 2016
Publisher: Omnium Gatherum Media
ASN: B01I2HIH6Q
ISBN: 9780692736067
No one in Willow Street pays it any notice, not the disgruntled Campbell family next door, not Alice Cowley and her suicidal daughter, or Mr. and Mrs. Markham down the road. Not even Darryl, the loner at number seventy, who is abnormal himself, thinks much about it. It is just the old Kemper House, forgotten and abandoned.

Until it makes itself known.

When the stench of death wafts from Kemper House through Willow Street, and comes to the attention of recent resident and newspaper reporter, Ben Traynor, it starts a chain of horrors that brings Kemper House's curse into their own homes and leads others direct to its door. Kemper House not only haunts its neighbors, it infects them with an evil that traverses time and reality itself.


Willow Street was a place where nothing interesting ever happened. People went about their everyday lives and didn’t pay attention to the abandoned house at the end of the street. That was until the stench of a dead body came from the old Kemper home. Suddenly the lives of everyone living on Willow Street are forever changed. As this is happening, the house begins to possess some people in the neighborhood and cause others to die. A newspaper reporter, Ben Traynor, whose home is across from the house, begins to investigate it, seeking a possible story connected to the finding of that corpse. He soon learns that this house and another like it in town, plus two other places, were built by a man for a good … no, bad reason.

This haunted house story does have an interesting premise. And the tale captured my interest at first. Though it does become confusing after a while. Maybe due to the many characters. Still, if you are looking for that scary haunted house story, you might trying reading this one.

I gave Hollow House 4 haunted sheep.










Pamela Kinney

About the Author:
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Greg Chapman is a horror author and artist from Australia.
After joining the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2009, Greg was selected for its mentor program under the tutelage of author Brett McBean.
Since then he’s had more than a dozen short stories published in magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the United Kingdom.
Greg Chapman is a horror author and artist from Australia.
After joining the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2009, Greg was selected for its mentor program under the tutelage of author Brett McBean.
Since then he’s had more than a dozen short stories published in magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the United Kingdom.
Greg is the author of the novel Hollow House (Omnium Gatherum, 2016), and five novellas: Torment (2011 and 2016), The Noctuary (2011), Vaudeville (2012), The Last Night of October (2013 and 2016) and The Eschatologist (2016).
His debut collection, Vaudeville and Other Nightmares, was published by Black Beacon Books in September, 2014.
He is also a horror artist and his first graphic novel Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, written by Bram Stoker Award® winning authors Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton was published by McFarland & Company in 2012.
Witch Hunts won the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel category at the Bram Stoker Awards® on June 15, 2013.
He also illustrated the comic series Allure of the Ancients for Midnight Echo Magazine.
His most recent illustrative work is the one-shot comic, Bullet Ballerina, written by Tom Piccirilli, for SST Publications in the United Kingdom.

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