The Haunting of Crimshaw Manor

In Drotos’s spine-chilling debut, the members of a newly formed college club focused on the paranormal land the investigation of their dreams—if they can survive it. College student Evelynn Dumavastra’s lifelong precognitive dreams have led her to study the paranormal. As part of her research, she’s frequently requested access to the famously haunted Crimshaw Manor, but she’s always been denied. Now, however, with Prof. Stephen Davenport lending Evelyn’s club credibility as its academic adviser, she’s finally approved. The manor’s caretaker leaves the keys with the club for the weekend, departing quickly before dark. Evelynn, Stephen, and the club’s vice president, Robb, begin investigating that night and discover that the ghost of Elizabeth Crimshaw, née Cantor, is desperate to tell her story. But she’s not the only spirit in the house, and someone—or something—doesn’t want the story told. Drotos exhaustively details the instruments and methods used in ghost hunting and cuts the tension with humor at all the right moments. Fans of haunted house tales are sure to be pleased. (July)