Chapelwood

A disappointment after the wonderfully creepy Maplecroft. The relationships between the characters had less depth, the characters themselves were more thinly drawn, the first person narration was frequently clunky, and the historical Lizzie Borden story was so far from central to the plot that it felt an unnecessary addendum. Perhaps most damningly, I--the biggest scaredy-cat of my acquaintance--read this book alone at night and wasn't terrified once.

I did get a bit of a kick out of the novel's juxtaposition of the KKK and similar idealogical groups and (the infamously racist) Lovecraft's mythos, though.