The White Room

by Rick Hautala and A.J. Matthews

Book Overview

Heading for Hilton, Maine, to spend the summer restoring his old childhood home, Tim and Polly Harris and their young son, Brian, encounter more than they had bargained for when human bones are found... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425180727
• ISBN13: 9780425180723
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.3" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

A great Halloween time read

This was a fun title. It works great during that Halloween time of year. If your a big fan of those creepy ghost stories this is the title for you. I also recommend any of the other A.J.Matthews titles.

Another great read by Hautala

As with all his books I couldnt put this down. Its one scary great read. I have no clue what a few reviewers meant by Polly is always fainting. 3 times in the entire book isnt always or a lot. Its part of the story of whats happening to her. She sure becomes stronger as the story progresses.

Really Great Read

I really liked this book. I've never read this author before but I picked it up at the library on a whim. I am very pleased! I checked this book out yesterday and just finished it today. I was unable to put it down. I am certain that I am going to add this book to my personal library. This book kept me emotionally evolved from beginning to end and isn't that what books are for? Whether it be joy, sadness or good old fashioned fear (I love roller coaster rides myself!), the sign of a good read is how it made you feel.This book definitely kept me on the edge of my seat and I would recommend it to anyone who loves roller coaster rides!I don't enjoy reading reviews that tell the whole book but then again I never, ever read the back of a book or the inside jacket so I hope it suffices to say that if you read this book, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Chilling and filled with despair . . .

The White Room is what an adult horror novel should be. Not "adult" in the sense of graphic-ness, but a horror novel that echoes with the concerns and aching sadness that sometimes touch the lives of all of us who are over the age of twenty-five. Death and loss, despair and depression. The White Room is filled with those things, but before you start thinking that's a bad thing, remember that such masterful pieces of American literature as Larry McMurtry's STREETS OF LAREDO and Stephen King's INSOMNIA are also laden with such themes.This book isn't going to make you smile . . . but it isn't meant to. What it will do is get into your bones in a way that will cast a shroud of unease and eeriness over everything for the time it takes you to read it . . . and for some time after. Really chilling.

A special horror

The White Room is a new classic tale of horror, thought provoking, disturbing and compellingly readable. The themes are tried and triue, but the depth, and the frights, here seem new, and powerful, as if eerily placed with a caring, spooky hand. If that sounds good, then pick this up, light a cadle, lock the front door...and settle in for a long eve's chilly read...