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The House That Jack Built by Masterton, Graham is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The House That Jack Built about?
After Craig Bellman is horrirically attacked, he and his wife Effie leave New York for the peace or the country, hoping to rebuild their damaged relationship. However, when Craig insists on buying a derelict mansion on a mountainside - despite Effie's serious reservations - their problems are only just beginning… The house echoes with a terrible agonised sobbing, and Effie, trying to overcome her fears, recruits a spiritualist to deal with its threatening vibrations. But when a gruesome death occurs she starts to fear that the spirit of the past, and of the previous owner, notorious gambler Jack Belias, is back to haunt them for good… *** From Publishers Weekly Lacing an atmospheric tale of haunting and possession with heavy doses of gore and sex, Masterton (Burial) screams out a story better told in a whisper. High-powered Manhattan lawyer Craig Bellman and his eager-to-please wife, Effie, are touring the Hudson River Valley when they chance upon Valhalla, a decrepit mansion that broods on the bluffs north of Cold Spring. A monument to the towering ego of textile mogul Jack Belias, who vanished mysteriously in 1937, the edifice has understandable psychol
Who reads The House That Jack Built?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Masterton, Graham
- Publisher
- Leisure
- Language
- EN
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Children'S, Juvenile
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (111 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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