The title, of course, refers to the tale, but it just as easily describes the experience of having this book in your own two hands. Its claustrophobic atmosphere of disconcerting strangeness will not let go of you and you won’t want to let go of it until you’ve turned the last page. And once you’re done, I can assure you, the book isn’t. Not only were there moments that made me actually gasp, this book genuinely messed with my head a few times as its menacing weirdness bled into my non-reading life. If you’re looking for a haunted house/ghost story to thoroughly distract you from the world for little while – and you’ve already read The Haunting of Hill House – this is it.