Twelve Nights at Rotter House

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Twelve Nights at Rotter House

Auteur(s): J.W. Ocker

Narrateur(s): Matt Godfrey

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Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself.

When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for two weeks, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a best seller. As with his other gigs, he sets rules for himself: no leaving the house for any reason, refrain from outside contact, and sleep during the day.

When Thomas Ruth, Felix's oldest friend and fellow horror film obsessive, joins him on the project, the two dance around a recent and unspeakably painful rough patch in their friendship, but eventually fall into their old rhythms of dark humor and movie trivia. That's when things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement. Felix realizes the book he's writing, and his very state of mind, is tilting from nonfiction into all-out horror, and the shocking climax answers a question that's been staring these men in the face all along: In Rotter House, who's haunting who?

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J.W. Ocker offers a genre-defining story where two encyclopedic Horror Movie/Book fans lock themselves in a notoriously haunted mansion with ridiculous numbers of urban legends and reported sightings. The book is loaded with stereotypes.. but the author acknowledges where it's getting silly and actually embraces it. It's refreshing to see an author saying "I know this stuff is stupid + cliché.. let's go with it" (they intentionally use a Ouija *because* it's "expected", for example).
Niche writer 'Felix Allsey" confronts personal deficiencies/anxieties, friendship challenges - having invited lifelong friend 'Thomas Ruth' to share the endeavor - and the conversion from skeptic to believer. The book is as focused on character development as it is on jump scares. I liked the pacing of the book - philosophical/self-exploratory discussions alternating with macabre imagery and genuinely creepy, shiver-inducing encounters.

As to presentation: Reader Matt Godfrey was cast perfectly for the audiobook. His voice-acting is occasionally suspect, but his crisp diction & nerdish young-sounding timbre/cadence fit the neurotic, bookish, highly intelligent protagonist beautifully.

Altogether, 'Twelve Nights In Rotter House' was an absolute blast. The friend interaction breaks between stretches of don't-listen-in-the-dark events work wonderfully. I rate the book 9 stars out of 10. Spend the Credit.

[Note: Even though Ocher spends hour after hour ridiculing "Haunted House" clichés, the Climax is ridiculously trope-y]