{"id":3342,"date":"2019-09-23T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:47:15","slug":"d-m-pulley-no-ones-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/d-m-pulley-no-ones-home\/","title":{"rendered":"D.M. Pulley: No One’s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet D.M. Pulley at the downtown library<\/a> on Saturday, October 19 at 2 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is an honest to god ghost story, inspired by Shirley Jackson\u2019<\/a>s classic The Haunting of Hill House.\u00a0 <\/em>It\u2019s guaranteed to give you the shivers.\u00a0 Threading together the stories of several \u2013 very tragic \u2013families who have shared the same house from 1922 to the present, the connections move into sharper focus as the book unfolds.<\/p>\n

The story opens with the Spielman family, who are making a move from Boston to the wealthy Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights<\/a>, where they are amazed by the amount of house they can get for their money.\u00a0 While Rawlingswood seems impressive, it\u2019s also a graffiti covered wreck, with stripped pipes and broken windows.\u00a0 The graffiti is more than disturbing, calling the house a \u201cmurder house\u201d and referencing dead girls. As Myron and Margot check the place out, Myron gets more and more excited, and Margot, more and more worried.\u00a0 Despite her objections they buy the house and begin to renovate it immediately, where all kinds of things go wrong, spooking the contractors, who eventually refuse to go up into the attic at all.<\/p>\n

But the family does eventually move in, and Myron, Margot and teenaged Hunter begin their new lives completely alienated from one another.\u00a0 Myron is gone to work; Margot stays home giving online yoga classes; and Hunter is completely lonely, communicating only via computer with his friends back home in Boston.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the other family stories begin to take shape.\u00a0 The original owners suffered through the crash in 1929 and lost everything; the next owners had a severely disabled, autistic son after years of trying, and it breaks up their marriage; and the next family, who have two foster children, lock the kids in their rooms at night.\u00a0 The connective thread is tragedy in various forms, and a mysterious ghost in the attic that seems to watch over the house and cause all kinds of trouble for the living tenants.<\/p>\n

The atmosphere is creepily gothic and the ghosts take on as much of a persona as the living characters the author writes about.\u00a0 I thought she moved clearly between storylines, and the tying up at the end was quite well done.\u00a0 She sets her story very specifically in Shaker Heights, providing some historical background that not only ties into the story she\u2019s telling but into actual history.\u00a0 This was a fast paced and enjoyable read \u2013 perfect for autumn and Halloween if you\u2019re searching for a good ghost story.<\/p>\n

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Meet D.M. Pulley at the downtown library on Saturday, October 19 at 2 p.m. This is an honest to god ghost story, inspired by Shirley Jackson\u2019s classic The Haunting of Hill House.\u00a0 It\u2019s guaranteed to give you the shivers.\u00a0 Threading together the stories of several \u2013 very tragic \u2013families who have shared the same house … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[237,236,10,235],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-d-m-pulley","tag-ghosts","tag-historical","tag-shaker-heights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}