Historical Tapestry: The Books of a Lifetime by Elizabeth Chadwick

One of the books I read not long after joining the adult library - and re-read several times. It was my first introduction to the genre of the atmospheric horror story and it haunts me even today. The story of a modern day boy possessed by Viking spirits when he finds an ... Stephen King is a very powerful writer indeed and this story of a family falling apart and closed up for the winter in the haunted (and maliciously so) Overlook Hotel is a claustrophobic triumph. ...