15 October 2012


The doorknob turned on its own.

To this day, I know it did. I know what I saw. Unlike everything else that had happened in that house, however, I couldn’t explain it away, shrug it off, assign the occurrence some mundane excuse, or attribute it to my young and overactive imagination. This time, I couldn’t just simply ignore it.

I hadn’t gone far away for Collage. Northern Kentucky University and Highland Heights weren’t much more than a two hour drive from my hometown of Louisville. That made weekend visits to see my parent’s easy and almost compulsory since my mom and I were and still are very close. I had lived in the house my whole life. And during my childhood, I’d been teased by unexplainable phenomenon, each incident always just short of being big enough for me to try and tell someone about. Being twenty years old and watching the doorknob to my bedroom turn slowly on its own, however, was quite different from being a small girl in her bed and wondering why I was hearing hard-soled footsteps in my room when I knew for a fact that shaggy orange-yellow carpeting covered my floor. At twenty years old, I didn’t have enough youth on my side to brush this off. I wouldn’t forget about his later. Or ever.

I’d been away for a week of classes and now that I was back, now that I had returned to my bedroom, the place where I slept and talked on the phone, drew and listened to music, I wanted to drop my things off, call my friends, watch a movie.

But, you see, before I could go in and do those things I had to stop. Because I saw my doorknob turn.

Braver then than I might be today, I stepped forward, grabbed that knob and opened my bedroom door. At the time, I felt beyond certain I would find one of my brothers (or even all three) lurking inside, hiding a bursting goofy laugh behind a hand.

Instead, I found my bed and furniture just as I’d left them, my covers pulled tight and my pillows stacked all too neatly, all too normally.There was no one inside my room. No one I could see, anyway.

The incident itself might have been bearable. It might even have been dismissible. But it wasn’t, if only for the reason that I knew I had seen it happened, and because it made all the other things I’d experienced as a child rise up in stark relief, each filed-away moment bubbling up like braille on my brain, separating from imagined fantasies, suddenly too real for comfort.

That night, uneventful as it was, I found myself missing my dorm room.



Title: Enshadowed (Nevermore, #2)
Author: Kelly Creagh
Publisher: Atheneum, 429 Pages (August 28th, 2012)
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Synopsis: [From the back of the ARC] Varen Nethers is trapped in a perilous dream world -- a treacherous and desolate realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life. Isobel Lanley, plagued by strange visions and haunted by the nightmares of Varen's creation, is the only one who can save him.

Isobel knows that her only hope lies within a Baltimore cemetery. There, in the early morning hours of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, a mysterious stranger known as the "Poe Toaster" will make his annual homage at the legendary poet's grave.

Only the Poe Toaster holds the key to the way between worlds. But even greater dangers lie ahead for Isobel. An ancient evil, draped in veils of white, is watching, challenging her for Varen's affections. When Isobel finally finds Varen, he is no longer the quiet and brooding boy who once captivated her, but a dark force, powerful and malevolent.



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14 comments:

  1. OOoh nice! Heard of these but never read them yet!

    jessica(DOT)agreatread(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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  2. I would probably brush that off as I'm just seeing things. Thanks for the story and signed book giveaway!

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  3. I would have hid in my bed under the blankets!!!! Gah!

    Vivien
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  4. You had me at the stories of Edger Allen Poe come to life!

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  5. Man i have not read either book in this series! I feel so behind sometimes... like the fact that I haven't read the Vampire Academy series or the Soul Screamers series. Not that I'm going to, probably. Too many books, not enough time! lol. Thanks for the post and giveaway :)

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  6. ****Forgot to leave my email****

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  7. Seeing that doorknob turn would have flipped me out! Kudos for being so brave lol! We had a door mysteriously open, slowly, all by itself (no wind,fan,vent,pet, etc to cause it) ... that was bad enough *shiver*! And thank you for the sweet giveaway, too <3
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  8. I would be scared to open the door. At least you didn't find anything on the other side.
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  9. I've heard great things about this series and I love how they're based on Poe!! Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  10. It would be startling to see a doorknob turn on its own. But I would probably brush it off as nothing.

    Thanks for the giveaway!
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  11. Creepy story, I feel lucky to have never had one of those types of experiences, I am entirely too chicken for that!

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  12. I love Edgar Allan Poe inspired stories. I definitely am adding this to my TBR. :)

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  13. OMG this giveaway is awesome

    Kelly

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  14. Thank you for the giveaway!

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