Contents

That Ghoul Ava by TW Brown
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Colony: Genesis by Michaelbrent Collings
Chronicler of the Undead by Mainak Dhar
Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman
Chasing Spirits by Glynn James
The Home by Scott Nicholson
Preta’s Realm: The Haunting (The Hidden Evil Trilogy, #1) by J. Thorn

When twelve-year-old Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled children, it’s a chance for a fresh start. But second chances aren’t easy for Freeman, the victim of painful childhood experiments that gave him the ability to read other people’s minds.

At Wendover, Freeman and the other children are subjected to more secret experiments, organized by a shadowy organization called The Trust. This is fairly similar to Stephen King – The Institute (2019).

Some of Kracowski’s unorthodox methods, if discovered, would have the Department of Social Services conducting a full-scale investigation of Wendover. Never mind that Kracowski, and therefore Wendover as a whole, produced results, with several children already successfully integrated back into the home and society. Healing had to be done in a proper way, by the book. Kracowski must have read the book backwards, torn out a few pages, and scribbled in most of the margins. And all that new machinery in the basement . . .

The experiments do more than open up clairvoyant powers–the electromagnetic fields used in the experiments are summoning the ghosts of the patients who died at Wendover back when it was a psychiatric ward.

Now a new scientist has been brought into the project, an unstable and cruel pioneer in ESP studies who performed most of his work on a very special subject: his son, Freeman Mills.

The story itself is pretty far fetched, it merges the world of the living with the world of the dead, and the writer does such a great job of showing how its done, that I almost believed it myself to be possible. I’ve seen some talent in another one of his books (Afterburn: A Free Post-Apocalyptic Thriller – Scott Nicholson) but this one did well.

I really liked the ESP woven through, when Kracowskis treatments were giving certain people the ability to read minds, and not only the minds of the living but also of the souls of those who died in the house a very long time ago while it was an insane asylum.

Harmony is the brain’s natural state. We can blame civilization, socialization, and, yes, religion, for the pressures and stresses that have thrown the modern brain out of balance.

I’d say reading about ghosts is scary enough but insane ghosts are really something quite interesting to submerge in.

The woman’s eye sockets, empty as abandoned mines, stared out as if not understanding this strange and solid world she had encountered. Her amorphous flesh pressed against the glass, and Kracowski found himself taking mental notes to record later in his journal.

As the house itself becomes more haunted with the continuous experiments involving electromagnetic fields, Freeman himself starts going into other peoples minds and pieces together a truth that is more terrifying than he could have imagined.