The Toll House: Discover this autumn's most spinetingling ghost story thriller

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Sinister from the get-go, THE TOLL HOUSE is a belter of a ghost story. A novel where two families, 150 years apart, navigate living in a house where grief and murder have bled into the walls. I loved it. -- LIV MATTHEWS author of THE TWINS The Toll House on the edge of the town, now home to Kelda and her son Dylan with a chance to make a fresh start after many difficult years and maybe they can both truly be happy in this new house and move on from their old selves. Lester and White finished their cups with irritating slowness, pausing between sips to sniff the aroma, and to discover the sex and dates of arrival of the "strangers" which floated in some numbers in the beverage. Mr. Meagle served them to the brim, and then, turning to the grimly expectant Mr. Barnes, blandly requested him to ring for hot water.

The Toll House by Carly Reagon (9781408726440/Hardback The Toll House by Carly Reagon (9781408726440/Hardback

A classic style ghost story with all the usual twists and turns. The story is set in an old toll house and the events shift between two time periods - modern day and C19th. Interestingly, the details from the past are almost all narrated in the first person present tense from the perspective of the toll keeper, with the modern day events being narrated in the third person. This shift in perspective helps build the suspense and mystery well and is skilfully maintained.After discovering a death mask inside one of the walls and the six year old soon having nightmares, you know that the ominous foreboding is set in motion. Reading 'The Toll House' by Carly Reagon, I found myself wanting to shake the author and cry, 'More action! More action!' One of the best aspects of the dual timelines is the manner in which in the reader discovers more surrounding the house and makes both sections equally gripping.

The Toll-House - Short Stories and Classic Literature The Toll-House - Short Stories and Classic Literature

He sprang forward too late; Lester, with his face buried in his arms, had rolled over on the floor fast asleep, and his utmost efforts failed to awake him. He rang the bell, and, sending for the landlord, appealed to him in the name of our common humanity not to let them waste a night watching in a house in which spectres and hobgoblins had no part. The reply was more than reassuring, and the landlord, after describing with considerable art the exact appearance of a head which had been seen hanging out of a window in the moonlight, wound up with a polite but urgent request that they would settle his bill before they went. It's no good," he said at last, and, turning from them, watched Meagle. "Don't you go to sleep," he said anxiously. The landlord nodded. "That's what the jury brought it in," he said slowly; "but his mind was sound enough when he went in there. I'd known him, off and on, for years. I'm a poor man, but I wouldn't spend the night in that house for a hundred pounds." a touch of gothic horror, gruesomeness, spooks, twists and turns and ghostly goings on..... I dare you to dive in

Meagle shook his head, and they stood for some time in uneasy silence. "May as well shut the door," said Barnes at last. And without turning this into a complete complainfest, there are more than one or two plot holes and storylines not so much unresolved as simply abando - Good Lord, Lester, we've driven him mad," he said, in a frightened whisper. "We must go after him."