Rohan O’Grady’s 1971 novel of psychological horror combines a haunted house motif with a narration from an unreliable, psychologically deteriorating narrator.
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Amy Burton is struggling to make ends meet, helping to support her journalist husband who’s taken time off work to write the Great American (well, in this case, Canadian) Novel. A sudden windfall of an inheritance bequeathed to her husband’s mom leads the three of them to purchase an old creaking mansion and move in together. The house, of course, has a history.…
Amy quits her job and they take in boarders to supplement their income. She slowly discovers the house’s unspeakable past. Eerie noises, a strange black dog, ghostly visions of children, paranoia, mysterious packages, an exploding fruit jar, a preposterous séance — for Amy, they all lead up to one hell of a … BLEAK NOVEMBER …..
Great cover illustration by….? The purple arrow at the top of my copy must have been stamped on there by a previous owner. It is NOT a part of the normal cover art.
