The Seance in Apartment 10

By: Ambrose Ibsen

Narrated by: Valerie Englehart

Would you like to speak to the dead?

When Tori moves into a studio at the rundown Lamplight apartment complex, she gets more than she bargained for. The faucet leaks, the water heater barely functions, and the lack of air conditioning makes the summer nights brutal...

But worst of all is the dark presence that stalks the building.

When she and her friends play around with a Ouija board, Tori learns firsthand why the living have no business communing with the dead. Something sinister is roused in the process, and her life begins to spiral into madness soon thereafter. She suffers terrible nightmares, hallucinations, and feels as though she's being watched at all hours of the day.

And that's only the beginning. If the spirit has its way, it'll consume her completely.

With a terrifying specter on her trail and only a few cryptic clues about the building's curious past to aid her, Tori searches desperately for a way to get rid of the spirit.

What has escaped from the underworld will not go back so easily, however.

©2017 Ambrose Ibsen (P)2017 Ambrose Ibsen

Would have worked better in third person

I enjoy Ambrose Ibsen's work. I can always find a good ghost story, but they're always different and give me new experiences to look back on through a good book.

That being said, I had some issues with this book. I enjoyed the story, and I really liked the main character, but the story is written in first person POV, from the perspective of a college-student on break between terms. Sometimes the language that would be used in the narration was old enough, or flowery-enough, that I would have easily understood it having come from the character if she were an English major or someone who studied literature. But it didn't match her characterization at all, and it kept throwing me out of the story in confusion, because it was like she would suddenly start acting like a different character.

Add onto that that the narrator. She did an amazing job on tone and voices, but mispronounced a number of words that had me gritting my teeth through the book. Overall, a good and interesting story that spanned over years, but frustrating in enough points that I don't know if I'll listen to it again.

Couldn't get past the Narrator

I really like Ambrose Ibsen's stories. If you're in the mood for dark, creepy, something lurking in the shadows, he is my go to guy.

I liked the premise of this story but after listening to only ten minutes decided I just can't get past the narrator. She is reading too fast, almost like a nervous kid in front of a class that can't wait til he finishes his book report so he can sit back down.

I still want to read this story but I think I'll do it by actually reading it since I found the narrator more annoying than enjoyable. If you're looking for an Ambrose Ibsen story, I'd suggest one of his other ones like Transmission or The Asylum or Whispering Corridors. All of those I really enjoyed and the narrators did a great job.

not my favorite Ambose Ibsen book

I am a huge fan of Ambrose Ibsen but this was not really as good as most of his books I hsvecread or listened to. Valerie Englehart was ok as narrator but wasn't great either. The story was good.

Tori talks her father into letting her rent an off campus apartment during the summer so she can take some extra classes. After moving in some friends come over and bring an Ouija board. The trouble begins. Tori finds out the person who lived in the apartment above hers had committed suicide months before Tori moved in. She also found out the same woman had summoned a Demon. The same demon that came through the night her friends used the board. Now according to a friend she must get rid of the demon.

Enjoyed

I really like this book as well as the performance. It was not terrifying but it had some spooky moments. I would recommend it to anyone who has a fan of horror.

The friendship between the characters. This would make a great series

I really liked this story…it was captivating and interesting..it was scary and it would make a great series.