A young wife and mother-new to this town and to its secrets-learns just how much she doesn't know in this tingly tale of all the things hiding in the dark at the top of the stairs, from bestselling author Brandi Reeds.
While renovating her Victorian home, Ana Clementine finds an ornate door buried under forty years of earth. Once she restores it to the attic, she starts hearing whispers, her loving husband becomes a stranger, and her baby daughter learns a chilling new word. Maybe Ana has unlocked the house's secrets. Or maybe she's becoming just a little unhinged herself.
Brandi Reeds's Oak Avenue is part of Dark Corners, a collection of seven heart-stopping short stories by bestselling authors who give you so many new reasons to be afraid. Each story can be read in a single sitting. Or, if you have the nerve, you can listen all by yourself in the dark.
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(Amazon Original Stories, 27 September 2018, 72 pages, ebook, bought from Amazon)
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This is my first time reading the author. I loved this story. It's one of the best in the Dark Corners collection. This is the perfect menacing haunted house story. It's well-written, intense and pretty dark at times. I love ghost stories when they're subtle and blood and gore free. Oak Avenue ticks all the boxes for me. I loved the way it's not always clear whether what Ana is experiencing is real or a result of her exhaustion and stress. Ann cannot settle in the new house and hates being isolated from her husband and spied on by her neighbours. Her isolation makes what she experiences much worse. Oak Avenue is terrific.
