Absolutely ridiculous, but fun enough and one hell of a ride.

It's hard not to love a book that ties together some of your favorite characters from previously-unconnected novels. :)

This was a great horror book - finished reading this book in two days - couldn't put it down. A real page turner. This was the first time I've read anything by this author, so I'm looking forward to reading the rest of his books. If you like horror novels, you'll love this book!

DISAPPOINTING quality wise. Years ago I became a HUGE fan of Konrath when he was putting out complexly plotted books, that were perfectly edited and interacting with fans. Now that he has gotten rich that quality has disappeared (the last 3 releases have been wanting in quality). This book had a number of errors. First, were the NUMEROUS editing errors of wrong word usage, misspelling, and more than once using the wrong character name! Second, was lack of character development. Okay so, many of

Another great, gory and suspenseful story from a true master of horror and terror. This book contains characters from the author's previous books, brought together for a chance to win a million dollars if they can survive the night in a haunted house. No spoilers here, but a great read that I thoroughly enjoyed!

3.5 starsAn interesting concept of bringing together some characters in Kilborn's other horror books and having the survivors face their fears by signing up to stay overnight in a house with a bad history; the winner gets a million bucks. There were some frightening situations and I did enjoy the turn the story took near the end, but it seemed to have lost some steam and my interest in the last several chapters. The ending does make me want to re-read Kilborn's fantastic Origin. It was a fun, go...

Ok, here go's. the short chapters for each off the characters made the book feel kind of like I was channel surfing, it was choppy and by the time I got back to a character I didn't really care what was about to happen to him or her anymore. most of the time I forgot who was doing what and I didn't figure it out until it switched back to a difren't person. over half of the book was getting the characters to the house, then about 30% was cheap jump out and scare you type thrills in which everyon

#no-stars I expected a spooky haunted house story... sadly there was just a lot of disgusting gore/splatter. My first and last book by this author.

Eight people were selected to take part in a fear experiment at the old Butler House. Each person would be paid a million dollars for spending a night in this haunted house. Each one of the chosen people has had a terrifying experience in there past. For the eight participants in this experiment the biggest fear is fear of the unknown. Will their past experiences help them to survive this one?

This book was fabulous!It was funny, it was nerve wrecking, it brought back memories on certain characters you loved frokm previous books, you loved the new ones...like Moni and her dirty tounge and bad ass attitude lol and the super intelligent monkey with a helmet and a little gun :)))It started creepy, became horror, ended happy end and kind with a good dose of humor.If it weren't for all these characters that are binded together in one book I would have hated the ending...but if it was a bad...

Phew, I'm exhausted from sitting on the edge of my seat and following this harrowing tale - brilliant.Fabulous writing of a story of terror, where the characters were both believable and realistic, which brought alive the very real fear that can haunt us all.I've never read anything by this author before, and despite not knowing the back stories of the characters, there was enough detail so that from the first I was invested in their lives.An excellent read, if you like the psychological stance

Haunted House - A Novel of Terror (Jack Kilborn)Eight people are selected to spend the night in The old Butler House, noted to be haunted. Each person who was selected had their own terror haunting them from their past. But they have an offer that seems too good to be true, 1,000,000.00. It is a lot of money and each person has their reason to accept this offer.There is something evil going on in this house, it is filled with horror and violence and fear. Soon people begin to die in horrifying,

I found this to be an interesting read after I read the authors previous book, Endurance. It uses characters from the authors other books in a *Survivor All-Stars* type fashion. It isn't necessary to read the other books first but I would have liked to, as I assume most would. I would continue on with the series or read some of the earlier works, but not at the top of my to do list.Selected people are invited to take part in a "fear study" conducted at the infamous Butler House. The invitees wil...

Great book. Lots of twists and turns. Full of action from page 1 to the end. Made me really care about each and every person in depth. Would recommend it to all my horror loving friends.

Good...4 STARS?I will confess that I am not a big fan of haunted house stories. They almost always have this formula to follow - but the formula had to come from somewhere, right?When I think back of really scary, good haunted house movies, there are a few I'd seen when I was probably too young:THE AMITYVILLE HORROR stands out, as well as POLTERGEIST and THE SHINING.They scared the hell out of me, so I don't have anything bad to say about them.Since then, though, not a lot of movies on this subj...

It is hard to know who to recommend Haunted House by Jack Kilborn to. To horror fans? Absolutely. It is a tight if stereotypical package of gore horror. Yet its gimmick may narrow the scope. Horror writer Jack Kilborn and his attached-at-more-than-the-hip mystery author friend J. A. Konrath have previously written six horror and mystery novels titled Afraid, Endurance, Trapped, Serial Killers:Uncut, Origin, and The List. In this novel, Kilborn brings back all the main characters of those books t...

Potential brilliance, gone bad The Plot: A group of people, scattered across the United States have been solicited to spend one night in the infamous Butler Mansion. If they survive the weekend, they are guaranteed one million dollars. Who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity? The main characters were exactly that: caricatures: undeveloped and flat. Very disappointedThe pros: The idea of the plot was intriguing.The cons: Too many too count. Misspellings, poor punctuation, overuse of cliques, redunda...

This book is seriously a mess. It is structurally awful. And yet, i loved reading it. If there is such a thing as macho literary junk food, then this is it. If you are looking for a ghost story, look elsewhere. If you want the sort of over the top nonsense that characterized 1980s slasher flicks, then this is the place. Truthfully, I'll never admit to anyone i read this. Truthfully, I'll read another of Kornrath, er...Kilborns novels because sometimes you just need thr worst junkfood money can b...

“Looks like you invited the wrong goddamn dominatrix to your little party, bitch!”Jack Kilborn brings together eight of his surviving characters from previous five books in the Konrath/Kilborn collective. Most of these characters I was familiar with, except for one from a short story I never read, but it was still pretty cool to see them all together in one book. However, while it was a bit of fun, this is one of Konrath's weaker entries as the writing was choppy, the humor was misplaced, and th...

Kilborn's modern take on the gothic horror story is a mess. The concept of the story is promising: the survivors of horrors in his other book are gathered to a haunted house for a study on fear, something they are all intimately acquainted with. But the clunky prose, perfunctory story-telling, and clumsy execution fails to bring the story to the level of its concept.The pacing and proportion of the story's action to its introduction is strange, with the first half of the book being devoted to se...