Dark and Deadly Things

Haunted Houses, Book 1

By: Kelly Martin

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Since Elise Morgan left her father’s fake reality television show, Dark and Deadly Things, she put the ghost-hunting life behind her, able to comfortably watch from her couch--next to the ghost of her mother.

When the Halloween episode airs live on television, something goes horribly wrong. Four people end up dead, and Elise's father is the lead suspect in their murders. But Elise knows the truth. She watched the thing that crawled from the darkness. It most certainly wasn't her father.

Abel Hale was in the house when his family died. He felt the icy chill, heard the scraping of nails along the wall, felt the fear and gleeful anticipation as the entity stalked them. The thing that killed the people he loved was not human. There is only one person who believes him, one person who can help him-Elise, the daughter of the man he blames for his family's death.

Reality mixes with fantasy as Elise and Abel's world turns upside down.

A ghost hunting, haunted house, paranormal romance... with a villain you'll love to hate.

©2017 Kelly F Martin (P)2025 Kelly F Martin

Unusual Ghost story with Cliffhanger ending

Daniela Acitelli does a lovely job voicing the depressive and snarky main character, finding the dark humor in her ghost-seeing abilities that have a tendency to complicate her life. It’s a slow build in the action that ends in a cliff hanger just as the major plot point is starting to pick up. Hopefully Book 2 is coming soon!

Horror

Great horror book. Very enjoyable and very easy to follow. Definitely well done by the narrator and author. Definitely recommend this book.