The Harrowing is an easy to read thriller based at a college over Thanksgiving break. While most students go home a small group of unlikely misfits stay. In their boredom they come across a "talking board" (ouija board) and trouble ensues.

This book is a page turner and with its slight references to historical fact is balanced well, so as not to be just another scary story. ( )

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It was the perfect spooky ghost haunting book to kick off the Autumn Season. The story's plot really isn't that original but it was well written, creepy, and totally kept me interested the whole way through. I definitely stayed up way to late reading it. I love to scare myself silly.

Here's the plot:

The Setting: Thanksgiving holiday weekend at Baird College's Mendenhall co-ed dorm.

The Leading Lady: Robin Stone - she's one depressed cookie, not wanting to go home for the holiday and opting to stay in the abandoned dormitory for the holiday.

Conflict: While contemplating the possibility of ending it all, Robin stumbles across four other lonely co-eds who also have stayed home. So, being college kids, they stay up late and drink alcohol in front of the fireplace and dig out the ol' Ouija board. Through the board, a presence named Nicholas makes itself known. Could this Nicholas be the ghost of a student who was killed in the 1920's on campus or is it all a joke? Or something more sinister?

So you see, not too original but boy did I have fun reading it. It was like reading a horror flick. ( )

In this ghost-haunting-the-college-dorm story, five college students fear for their lives after unleashing a vengeful ghost via Ouija board. Those things are ALWAYS trouble!

This is especially good for those who love horror flicks - it has a very cinematic feel to it. ( )

Kearsten says: If you like teen horror flicks, check this out - it has a very cinematic feel to it. ( )