The Supernatural Enhancements

by Edgar Cantero

EVERYBODY LOVES A CONSPIRACY. DON'T THEY?

When Ambrose Wells dies jumping out of his bedroom window in Axton House, forgetting to open it first, a distant relative with an unusual companion takes possession of the gothic estate at Point Bless, Virginia. But as they settle into their new surroundings, excited by rumours of ghosts, suicides and secret societies, they find themselves not just part of a mysterious 'Game', but determined to win it.

• ISBN10: 0385538162
• ISBN13: 9780385538169
• Publish Date: 12 August 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Doubleday Books
• Format: eBook
• Language: English

Reviews

[chrssym]

Wow. I enjoyed this immensely. It was also very interesting!

[empressbrooke]

I went into this thinking I was getting a haunted house novel, something akin to [b:House of Leaves|24800|House of Leaves|Mark Z. Danielewski|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403889034s/24800.jpg|856555] with its found-footage, epistolary style of storytelling. While it does tell the story through letters, transcripts of audio and video recordings, and other books, it's not a story about a house at all. The house is the setting, but it's not a character. There is a haunting, but it's incidental to the main story. Instead, this is a wildly fun story about dreams and a secret society and codes and mythology and a garden maze. I enjoyed the whole thing quite a bit, including the fact that it was set in 1995 and therefore sidestepped the issue of cell phones and the modern day internet making some of the mysteries too easy to solve. The final scene also packs a great punch with its final revelations.