Julian's House Hawkes, Judith

Amazon.com Review This suspenseful haunted-house tale--praised by the New York Times for its "passages rich with descriptive beauty, complex with philosophical theorizing and seductive with hard (and tantalizing) information"--is a rich elaboration on the premise of parapsychologists trying to document ghost behavior. In this instance the researchers are a recently married (and sexually repressed) young couple who move their high-tech equipment into a Victorian house with the requisite history of bumps in the night. They are prepared to encounter supernatural phenomena, but not at all prepared to examine their own psyches. When the house starts acting as a sounding board for their neurotic conflicts, it's not clear whether actual ghosts are acting as interactive mirrors, or if the house is simply a big Rorschach inkblot for the projections of a troubled marriage. Judith Hawkes unfolds all the chilling complexity of the puzzle, and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions. Product Description Parapsychologists David and Sally Curtiss set up shop in their new home, observing the various other-worldly apparitions that threaten to chase them away From Publishers Weekly A married couple of psychic researchers appears to be possessed by spirits after moving into a reputedly spooked house for some field research. "This haunted-house story, decked out with speculation about parapsychology and dragged to an ambiguous conclusion, is dull reading," complained PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.