The Grip of it

by Jac Jemc

ISBN: 9781789091977

Published: 2019-09

A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home Jac Jemc's The Grip of It tells the eerie story of a young couple haunted by their new home. Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. The move -- prompted by James's penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check -- is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. But this house, which sits between lake and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to settle into their home and their relationship, the house and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The architecture -- claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms -- becomes unrecognisable, decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wall -- contracting, expanding -- and map themselves onto Julie's body in the form of bruises; mould...