The Remaking
Books | Fiction / Horror
3.3
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Clay McLeod Chapman
From Clay McLeod Chapman, “the twenty-first century’s Richard Matheson” (Richard Chizmar), comes an “original and chilling” (Buzzfeed) ghost story that follows the legend of the Witch Girl of Pilot’s Creek as it evolves every twenty years—with haunting results.In the 1930s, Ella Louise and her daughter Jessica are dragged from their home at the outskirts of Pilot’s Creek, Virginia. Ella Louise is accused of witchcraft, and both are burned at the stake. Ella Louise’s burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses.But if the mother was the witch, why was the little girl’s grave so tightly sealed? This question fuels a legend told around a campfire in the 1950s by a man forever marked by his encounters with Jessica. Twenty years later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a ’70s horror movie inspired by the ghost story. Amber’s experiences on the set and its ’90s remake will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt.Now, Amber’s best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a popular true-crime investigator tracks her down for an interview. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her—or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again?
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Author
Clay McLeod Chapman
Pages
304
Publisher
Quirk Books
Published Date
2019-10-08
ISBN
1683691547 9781683691549
Ratings
Google: 3
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""A good ghost story gets told...and retold. It's in the telling where the tale takes on a life of its own. A ghost story grows. It exists on the breath of those who tell it."<br/><br/>4.5⭐<br/><br/>I had so much fun reading The Remaking! This book has so many things I love - horror movies, ghost stories, true crime podcasts, and a spooky setting. The cover is eye-catching, and I was hooked on the story immediately. <br/><br/>This story is told in 4 different sections - the original ghost story, the filming of the movie about the ghost story, the filming of the remake, and then several years after the remake. This was such an entertaining format, and I really loved reading this story. <br/><br/>The only reason this doesn't have a full 5⭐ review is because the ending was a little too confusing / vague for my taste. I went back over it a couple times, and still wasn't entirely sure what had happened. It was still such an enjoyable read, though, and I definitely recommend this book."