Episode Thirteen
Books | Fiction / Horror
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Craig DiLouie
From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined. Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts. Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen—and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong."An epistolary descent into a living nightmare . . . well-written and genuinely unsettling. Fans of paranormal documentaries, ghost-hunting shows, and found-footage horror will lose their minds over this one." —Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Kin “A beautiful Russian doll of a story… Episode Thirteen hooks you, creeps you out, and then it overwhelms you. It’s House of Leaves meets Haunting of Hill House, in all the best possible ways.”—Peter Clines, NYT bestselling author of The Broken Room For more from Craig DiLouie, check out: The Children of Red Peak Our War One of Us
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Author
Craig DiLouie
Pages
464
Publisher
Orbit
Published Date
2023-01-24
ISBN
0316443204 9780316443203
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"Really good, I'm not even sure how to explain it. Unsettling but in all the right ways. "
Ashley Dunn
"Very slow read. Minimal character development - I had 0 connection or interest in any characters. The ending was incredibly unsatisfying "
Maddison Chick
"Episode Thirteen was the first horror novel that I’ve read, and it did not disappoint. This story follows the journey of a paranormal TV crew investigating a haunted house called Foundation House. During 1972, abnormal experiments were being performed at the house. Years later the scientists who worked at the house mysteriously disappeared, and the TV crew called “Fade to Black” had an opportunity to uncover the mystery of the house. This book was very fast paced, and keeps you in suspense."
Anna-Jo Sackda
"I loved the energy toward the end of the book. It was impossible to put down once I got past the middle. The first half was kind of dragging but once you hit the last 150 pages it really packed a punch. Definitely recommend. "
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Reese Battles
"It’s definitely a weird book, told in transcripts and journals. If you love weird paranormal things this is it! "
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Abie Carrick
"At the moment, “Into the Drowning Deep” by Mira Grant and “Cotton Candy Massacre” by Christopher Robertson are two I’ve listened to multiple times :) Drowning Deep is a slow burn and runs a bit long, but I love it so much! Cotton Candy Massacre feels like you’re reading/ listening to an 80s slasher movie complete with occasional camera instructions and scene setups for a movie such as “split screen: on one side we see this on the other we see this”. I would love to see it adapted into a movie! Another great one is “The Deep” by Nick Cutter. It’s very claustrophobic and unsettling with a delightful smattering of cosmic and body horror :) if you have any creepy recs that lean into cosmic horror or will leave me feeling unsettled or disturbed let me know :) sorry for the novel of a response lol"
Brody Child
"I love the concept of a book written as a found footage, it made me feel like I was watching a horror film as it happened, but I’m unimpressed with the characters. I couldn’t really connect with them and felt indifferent if they survived or not. And then the book got weird. I finished it just to see where it leads but although a big twist, I felt like it lacked. :( "
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Crystal Olivares-Long
"Has a bit of a slow start but once I got into I couldn’t put it down. "
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Anna Smith
"This book started off SO STRONG. It was like reading a “Ghost Adventures” episode. Howeverrrrr, the minute they went “downward,” the book turned weird. It was almost like two people wrote the book - one wrote the first half, and another wrote the second half."
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Amy Blount
"Not a bad book by any means, but definitely not what I (personally) look for in a "haunted house" story.<br/>Captivating? Quite. This was an incredibly fast read, especially since I love it when books are a mishmash of genres (Journal entries, scripts, what have you.)<br/>However, it contained a bit too much of what I'll wrongly call science fiction. Maybe. I suck at genres.<br/><br/>All in all any dramatic flare that normally comes with a haunted house got mixed in with the whole science-y part. Which I'm sure many will like, it IS a fresh take after all. Just not what I wanted."
Agustina Aceste