Wow! The second time around with this book was just as scary and chilling as the first time around!



A little backstory:

Tour guide, Remy loves taking people through Carrow House explaining things that have happened within its walls as the house is known for being haunted. People from previous tours have literally disappeared through the years or ended up dead. When one of Remy's tourists (Mark) shows an interest in the house and tells her that he would love to have her host a week long stay for seven guests, Remy thinks nothing of it as she has personally never seen anything happen as long as she has been a tour guide. The seven guests arrive which includes a psychic medium and a ghost hunter in the mix along with other people that are interested in the ghostly house. Once everyone meets and greets along with picking out the rooms they will be staying in, the house seems to settle down.

The house goes into full active mode when the medium decides to conduct a séance and then all hell breaks loose as the paranormal energy increases to the point of slamming doors, breaking glass, footsteps in upper rooms of the house, and apparitions gliding along the hallways!

What is haunting Carrow House? Will the guests make it out alive? No spoilers here as you will just have to read the book.

This book was one of the most scariest so far by author, Darcy Coates! The author, captured the ghostly essence of the house and throws the reader right into the haunting.

I felt every emotion of the characters as I delved into the storyline and the atmosphere of the haunting just stayed with me as I read the book! I became so immersed in the book that I felt the dread and trepidation of the characters as they endured the paranormal activity in the house!



Chills and thills is the name of the game in this book! This was a classic ghost story and it will be going on my favorites shelf! Giving this one five "chill factor" stars! ( )

I just discovered this author a few weeks ago and have been thorougly enjoying devouring her books. This has been my favorite so far!

I immediately fell in love with the characters. I loved trying to solve the mystery of what was truly happening. Such a unique twist on the standard haunted house story that kept me guessing until the end. ( )

I have always...from a very early age...been a fan of ghost stories. So, Darcy Coates stories are perfect. She always manages to include things of my worst nightmare as a child...unseen things grabbing me and catching me off guard. There are plenty of things here to give me delicious nightmares for a month or two. "Welcome, dear ones, to the dreaded Carrow House." Remy Allier...the tour guide...gives guided tours through the area's "most haunted house" once a week, when the weather permits. Located in an island-like area, with only one bridge spanning Carrow's land to the "mainland", the isolation of the location is as absolute as it can get. Remy knows all aspects of Carrow's long and sullied history. Built by John and Marie Carrow as a sanitarium initially, a tragic fire led to it being renovated into a Grand Hotel. Their biggest mistake was in the hiring of a certain gardener, by the name of Edgar Porter. . . “In small towns like the ones nearest Carrow House, there was a pervasive subconscious assumption that the rich and influential couldn't be criminals . . . " Yeah...Right! The estate had always carried an unmistakable taint...a “wrongness”. Deaths and disappearances continued on...unabated... until it was eventually left abandoned. A spoiled rich teenager, April Mahon, had the former hotel purchased for herself. She took great pains in having the original furnishings restored to how it was in its murderous heyday. ". . . There's a recurring theme of tragedy befalling anyone who lives in the building . . . aside for brief research-related stays, no human has attempted to live in it since." This makes the house itself an unforgettable, unforgiving character...as much “alive” as any of the actual breathing human beings. The story will capture your undivided attention from the very beginning...while tightening it's hold over and making you very aware of who or what is in charge here. ( )

This book was really good. I read it while I was on vacation, and reading about a haunted hotel while sleeping in motels adds a whole new level lol. But in all serious I really did find this book very scary. I was jumping at shadows and had to read something lighter before bed just to get some sleep. I found it had a bit of a 'who dunnit?' feel to it, which wasn't bad. I don't think there was anything particularly original to it though. It was and intriguing read, but the concept were pretty typical. ( )

The Carrie Haunt by Darcy Coates is a good ghost story about a group of people who come together to explore a haunted house, each for their own reasons. There are ghosts, bleeding walls, possession, dead bodies, and evil! A perfect bedtime story!😉 ( )