As the result of a recent mental breakdown, Ginette has left the fast-paced acting life of New York City and rented a house in the small town of Merrittville to isolate herself during her recovery. She has become obsessed with watching her neighbors. Mr. Elias spends the whole day sitting in front of a typewriter. Trixie plays with her dolls in her backyard. And the Lowells are an affectionate newlywed couple. This changes when Mr. Lowell’s mother moves in. Ginette notices a man standing outside her window watching Mr. Lowell’s mother, and since she can’t seem to sleep, she sees the mother walking in the alleyway between their houses in the middle of the night…specifically 3 am, which we commonly call the devil’s hour. The second time this happens, the mysterious man is following her, and Ginette gets the feeling that the mother is no longer living and that the mysterious man isn’t a man at all. He’s something worse. But Ginette can’t seem to leave the house. Any time she tries to make for the front door, she is overwhelmed by nausea and a voice in her head repeatedly screaming to shutup shutup shutup. Is Ginette seeing ghosts? Or is she still having a psychotic break?
Did Kayla’s expectations of Simone St. James live up to the amount of hype Karey has been giving it? What distinctions do we see between the thriller genre and the horror genre, and which does this book fall into? How important is the setting to this story? Join us as we discuss these questions and more in episode 24 of our spoiler-filled podcast.
Questions: The questions discussed in this episode come from mystery and suspense .com, with a few sprinkled in that Karey came up with. → https://www.mysteryandsuspense.com/thriller-book-club-questions/
Our spooky season music is from a song titled “Horror Background Music” by Lesfm from Pixabay.
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