Episode Thirteen
From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined.
Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts.
Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen--and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong.
"An epistolary descent into a living nightmare . . . well-written and genuinely unsettling. Fans of paranormal documentaries, ghost-hunting shows, and found-footage horror will lose their minds over this one." --Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Kin
"A beautiful Russian doll of a story... Episode Thirteen hooks you, creeps you out, and then it overwhelms you. It's House of Leaves meets Haunting of Hill House, in all the best possible ways."--Peter Clines, NYT bestselling author of The Broken Room
For more from Craig DiLouie, check out:
The Children of Red Peak
Our War
One of Us
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780316443104
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I wanted to LOVE this book, but I just... didn't. I love the idea of how it's put together in a found-footage/epistolary way but at the same time that format kept me from feeling too attached to any of the charters, I didn't feel what they were feeling and nothing felt immediate.
The beginning was a bit slow for me, setting up the spooks in Foundation House, but then it takes a turn-- a huge turn in regards to the haunting and instead of feelings scary or tense it felt a bit silly. It was too over the top and given my disconnect with the emotions of the characters (maybe minus Jessica, I did feel for her a bit, especially in her exchanges with her sister) nothing even remotely was scary. I was never afraid for them.
There were some interesting moments in the underground investigation where i think I would have loved this book if it ha displayed out in a more traditional narrative (I say this sadly as I love a chance-taking book). Episode 13 just wasn't successful enough in that chance. I will definitely check out the other DiLouie book on my TBR but Episode 13 won't have a place on my trophy shelf.