The September House

De: Carissa Orlando

Narrado por: Kimberly Farr

“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."– Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this thoroughly enjoyable, twisty, and layered debut novel.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.

Margaret is not most people.

Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.

©2023 Carissa Orlando (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Kimberly Farr narrates this creepy, mesmerizing story of Margaret and Hal, who purchase their dream home, a beautiful, haunted Victorian.... Farr masters every unique character, alive or dead, in this one-woman show." (AudioFile)

"Margaret is a delightfully well drawn protagonist, sturdy, unflappable, and often dryly funny, but as the narrative unfurls, we learn that the reasons for her strictly regimented behavior are neither simple nor pleasant...The September House is a surprising, engaging debut." - Vulture.com (Best Books of 2023)

“Every once in a while, a story comes along that fully upends a genre in the most beautiful way, essentially reinventing the notion of what’s possible within that genre. Now, author Carissa Orlando, a horror enthusiast, has written that very story.” - Shondaland.com

“The metaphor is layered and at times heartbreaking, as secrets held by both a house and a family come to light with terrifying poignancy in this wonderfully eerie debut.” - Library Journal (starred review)

Good story premise; annoying main characters

This was a light summer read with a fun premise. Unfortunately, the two main characters are completely unlikeable. After her abusive alcoholic husband abandons her and subsequently vanishes, Margaret continues her bland existence living in her forever home with her equally forever resident ghosts, who are the worst houseguests ever. Judging by the complexity of her interior dialog, Maggie’s kind of a dim bulb. Even worse, she’s just … so … boooooring. Her daughter, Katherine, on the other hand, has a chip the size of the Western hemisphere on her shoulder and is constantly pissed about something. Katie has exactly two emotions: screaming rage and near apoplexy. By the end of the book, I was cheering for the murderous basement-dwelling ghost to move upstairs and make short work of these tiresome women.

Waste of credit

I’m so disappointed in this book. It was soooo long and sooo boring. I completely wasted a credit on this book. If you waste a credit on it, just know you’ve been warned. SMH…

The daughter is so annoying….

I loved this book up until the “daughter” came into the story. She was just so ANNOYING it made me lose interest in listening to the rest or I’d have to skip any parts with her in it 🥴

this book is amazing!

I can't believe how great this book is! it starts campy spooky and halfway through turns really dark and serious but the writing style and the narration is so superb it still has the cosy vibes! I'm speechless. Recommend it to anyone and everyone

A House of Horrors

Oh, my, goodness. This book is going to reside in my top ten for the year!

Margaret has found her dream home, and when things go crazy during September, well, she has found a way to deal with them. There are rules after all. Hal, her husband, is not quite as thrilled with the September events, but throughout the first three years, they learn ways to manage - until Hal has had enough. He is determined to leave, and wants Margaret to leave with him, but she refuses. There is something about the house, something that draws her back, unwilling to let her go too far away.

Master Vale, the Pranksters, Fredericka, everything with the house calls to her, and she is determined to keep her house, no matter what.

This book, sigh, was fantastic. I was not ready for it to be finished. I wanted more. The book just refused to let you walk away (there are rules after all), and this is easily a "once you start, you will not stop" read.

Good Filler

Would make a great movie! Little bit of a slower start for my taste, but Whiz bang of an ending!!

Very strange!

this was a good book Tho very strange and too much profanity. it had a very good storyline, and the narrator did a great job.

Great twist on haunted house story

I enjoyed the story, which was a very different twist on a haunted house story. I loved the narrator’s interpretation of the character as well.
I look forward to more work from this author.

Good haunted house story

Not suitable for listening around kids, I learned. Perfect narrator for the story. Definitely a good, old-school horror story.

Amazing debut!

I LOVED this audiobook! Highly recommend! I will certainly be adding this author to my must read list.