The Supernaturals

by David L. Golemon

Book Overview

Named One of Riffle's Ten Best Haunted House Books of All Time

Built at the turn of the twentieth century by one of the richest and most powerful men in the world tucked away in the pristine Pocono Mountains, Summer Place, a retreat for the rich and famous, seems the very essence of charm and beauty, "a scene borrowed from a wondrous fairytale of gingerbread houses, bright forests, and glowing, sunny meadows."

But behind the yellow and white trimmed exterior lurks an evil, waiting to devour the unwary...

Seven years ago, Professor Gabriel Kennedy's investigation into paranormal activity at Summer Place ended in tragedy, and destroyed his career. Now, Kelly Delaphoy, the ambitious producer of a top-rated ghost-hunting television series, is determined to make Summer Place the centerpiece of an epic live broadcast on Halloween night. To ensure success, she needs help from the one man who has come face-to-face with the evil that dwells in Summer Place, a man still haunted by the ghosts of his own failure. Disgraced and alienated from the academic community, Kennedy wants nothing to do with the event. But Summer Place has other plans...

As Summer Place grows stronger, Kennedy, along with the paranormal ghost hunting team, The Supernaturals, sets out to confront...and if possible, destroy...the evil presence dwelling there.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250105234
• ISBN13: 9781250105233
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

I enjoyed my local library's copy so much, I ordered my own!

The Supernaturals is apparently meant to be the first in a series. That doesn't mean that we get to feel relaxed about who is going to live. There's plenty of suspense to be had, especially since the prologue leaves us in no doubt that Summer Place is dangerously haunted. Summer Place is rumored to have been the inspiration for Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Fellow fans of the 1963 film adaptation, 'The Haunting', will recognize some elements of that classic. Kelly Delaphoy wants to do a Halloween special on Summer Place for her highly-rated TV show, 'Hunters of the Paranormal'. She really wants to get Professor Gabriel Kennedy, head of the disastrous investigation seven years ago, to be part of her special. He's not interested. We know from the prologue that Kennedy is not a murderer, but State Police Detective Damian Jackson and TV reporter Julie Reilly treated him as if he were, which ruined his career. In fact, getting the special approved and ready takes up the first four of the book's five parts (not counting the prologue and epilogue). This doesn't mean that we have to wait until the broadcast starts in chapter 18 for anything supernatural to happen. Summer Place doesn't want the special to take place and is not at all shy about making its displeasure known, especially in the test broadcast (which goes about as well as Kennedy's investigation). Too bad for Summer Place that the UBC Network CEO sees the attempted warning as proof of potential ratings gold. Prof. Kennedy is eventually brought on board. He puts together a team of friends and grateful former patients with special talents. The book gives us a chance to get to know their backstories before the big broadcast. It's very good for a haunted house story, although one cryptic warning was a little too easy to figure out. The author plays fair with his clues -- fair enough that I was able to guess part of the DARK SECRET before it was revealed. Summer Place is dangerous and scary, not unlike Richard Matheson's Hell House and Stephen King's Rose Red. It doesn't top Hill House in outcome, but there are plenty of chills to be had.