num_pages: 276
description: A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac Jemcs The Grip of It tells the eerie story of a young couple haunted by their new home. Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. The moveprompted by Jamess penchant for gambling his inability to keep his impulses in checkis quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. But this house which sits between ocean and forest has plans for the unsuspecting couple. As Julie and James try to settle into their home and their relationship the house and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. The architectureclaustrophobic riddled with hidden rooms within roomsbecomes unrecognizable decaying before their eyes. Stains are animated on the wallcontracting expandingand map themselves onto Julies body in the form of bruises; mold spores taint the water that James pours from the sink. Together the couple embark on a panicked search for the source of their mutual torment a journey that mires them in the history of their peculiar neighbors and the mysterious residents who lived in the house before Julia and James.Written in creepy potent prose The Grip of It is an enthralling psychologically intense novel that deals in questions of home: how we make it and how it in turn makes us mapping itself onto bodies and the relationships we cherish.
language: English
title: The Grip of It
publisher: FSG