Let Him In by William Friend

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Let Him In by William Friend - 240 pages

“Daddy, there’s a man in our room...”

Alfie wakes one night to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed, claiming there’s a shadowy figure in their bedroom. When no such thing can be found, he assumes the girls had a nightmare.

He isn’t surprised that they’re troubled. Grief has made its home at Hart House: nine months ago, the twins’ mother Pippa died unexpectedly, leaving Alfie to raise them alone. And now, when the girls mention a new imaginary friend, it seems like a harmless coping mechanism. But the situation quickly develops into something more insidious. The girls set an extra place for him at the table. They whisper to him. They say he’s going to take them away…

Alfie calls upon Julia—Pippa’s sister and a psychiatrist—to oust the malignant tenant from their lives. But as Alfie himself is haunted by visions and someone watches him at night, he begins to question the true character of the force that has poisoned his daughters’ minds, with dark and violent consequences.

Whatever this “friend” is, he doesn’t want to leave. Alfie will have to confront his own shameful secrets, the dark past of Hart House, and even the bounds of reality—or risk taking part in an unspeakable tragedy.

The cover of this book is spooky...the synopsis of this book is spooky...that's where the spookiness ends.  This could have been a great book; a spooky, creepy book.  The author hints at Pippa's parents' mysterious past, possibly messing with the occult.  But the author doesn't go into any details.  The author hints that Pippa's and Julia's parents moved to that particular house for a reason; something dark happened in the past.  But the author doesn't go into any details.  There is a mysterious "friend" but we never really find out from where he came.  This book had so much potential but unfortunately, in my opinion, fell so flat.  It was ok, but not horror in the least bit.