Review: THE GATEWAY IN APARTMENT 8 by Chisto Healy

A snappy, fast-moving, nonstop, VERY scary read [an implacable horror that no one can escape!] which is guaranteed to keep readers wide awake with the lights on and ready to emergency-dial! Set in the horrendous Sunnycrest Apartments (oh, let there be future stories set in this Horrifying establishment! I want to know about the stairwell children....and yes, expand on Fred! And return Leremy, Felicia, Connor, Kevin, Sarah!) [Those are not spoilers.]

A young college student sensibly rents an inexpensive apartment. Sensible would apply, if the entire building didn't intermittently spit tenants into insane asylums because it is grossly, tremendously, haunted! Worse for Sarah, her apartment (8) contains portals in the bedroom and living room closets: portals to the 1980's...and they're two-way. Not the only portal apartment in the Sunnycrest, either.

I really enjoyed being terrified by this novel. I appreciated the Pride themes and the depth of characterization. Plus there were several occurrences I couldn't foresee, turning the story on its head (and thoroughly spinning my head)!

FRIGHTFALL 2023!!

FRIGHTFALL OCTOBER 2023

Total Read: 40 October Spooky: 37! "R" indicates "Recommend," "HR" indicates "Highly Recommend"

1. ****The September House HR

2. ****THE EERIE BROTHERS and THE WITCHES OF AUTUMN HR

3.**** Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror HR

4. **** The Lover R

5. **** A Haunting on the Hill HR

6. **** The Night House HR

7. **** Becoming the Boogeyman

8. **** **Brainwyrms

9. ** This Thing Between Us

10. Device Free Weekend R

11. ****Black Sheep HR

12. ****They Stalk the Night HR

13. ****Hatchet Girls HR

14. Lavender House R

15. The Bell in the Fog R

16.**** Hokuloa Road HR

17. ****Beneath the Stairs R

18. ***The Hampton House Mystery

19. ***The Haunting R

20. ****Cutter's Deep

21. THE MOVING HOUSE (GHOSTLAND Prequel, Reread) Mount TBR [2019]

22. GHOSTLAND (#1). Mount TBR

23. TAVERN OF TERROR VOL 10 SCARE STREET ARC

24. LAST LIGHT NG ARC/TOUR

25. ELSEWHERE. own. Mount TBR. SF.

26. CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HORRORS. NG ARC Current. Release October 24.

27. THE LODGE. NG ARC MOUNT TBR, own Mount TBR.

28. WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT PART I. own Mount TBR.

29. WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT PART III. KU Virtual

30. PROJECT JOTUNHEIM. KU Virtual. SF.

31. HAUNTED SOULS. Own.

32. MACHINE VENDETTA. NG ARC New SF

33. A SEASON OF MONSTROUS CONCEPTIONS. NG ARC Current Release October 31

34. HALLOWE'EN PARTY. Scribd Virtual reread.

35. THE REFORMATORY. NG ARC Current

36. EVERSION. SF.

37. REVENGE OF THE CLOWNS.

38. JIGGLYSPOT AND THE ZERO INTELLECT. NG/KU

39. MIDNIGHT IS THE DARKEST HOUR. LIBBY Virtual

40. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ARCANA OF MADNESS. CLP ARC.

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