Review: House of Skin

House of Skin by Jonathan Janz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Paul’s Uncle Myles Carver has died and left him a house……so he leaves his old life and Emily and drives to the small town of Shadeland where the house and estate of Watermere is…..

He arrives late, finds the key left for him by the lawyer, Ted Brand and explores a little before falling asleep….The Police visit the next day as Ted is missing…

A neighbour, Julia knows where Ted is.

Paul hears rats in the walls and feels the need to get out of the house….he explores and finds a graveyard ……and also meets Julia.

“When he reached the large black tombstone, all he could do was stare”

Paul and Julia begin a relationship, but something is off……

Told from the perspectives of Julia and Paul with little jumps back to show the history of the house with Myles, Annabel and David…

No spoilers, so I can’t give too much away, but this is an immensely moody and unsettling tale which gave me the spooks….that feeling of something sat in the shadows….just waiting….

Jonathan Janz writing certainly set my nerves jangling with his Lovecraftian tale of a waiting Evil….I can thoroughly recommend it for lovers of clever, modern horror with a nod to the gothic.

Thank you to Anne Cater and Random Things Tours for the opportunity to participate in this blog tour and for the promotional materials and a free copy of the book in exchange for my honest, unbiased review.

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