The OED - it's got all the words in it, just need to do a bit of editing and we can recreate the entire corpus of human literature. Could even farm that out to the Infinite Monkey Corporation.
I disagree with that review, obviously. It's about a couple attempting to scientifically investigate a purportedly haunted house. The tension builds as one of them seems to lose objectivity over the investigation while at the same time their relationship becomes more and more strained, and spooky things keep happening at an accelerating pace and strength. Is the haunting real? Or is one of them --or both-- going crazy? If it is haunted, then who is the ghost, and why is it haunting? I didn't find it dull at all. I found the characters (three mains, the book is divided into three sections, one from each POV) engaging, the mystery interesting, the plot novel. It doesn't rely on tired tropes, and most importantly it doesn't try to scare the reader by just writing "scary stuff": it's a slow, steady rise in dread. This isn't a Stephen King style of horror, it's a proper ghost story. Like a less prissy, less oldtimey MR James. Nobody's running around with an axe, the walls aren't dripping blood, none of that sort of thing.
BitesizedAudio has good adaptions of older mystery and ghost stories.
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