William Peter Blatty's Elsewhere . As I slogged my way through Elsewhere , I found myself getting increasingly irritated. Elsewhere is a haunted house story. A group of people go to stay at a haunted house. There are Mysterious Hints.
More stuff happens.
There are more Mysterious Hints. I'm not going to tell you what the twist is, in case you actually want to wade through Blatty's novel yourself, but I will say that the payoff isn't good enough to excuse the mediocrity of the rest of his book. Alas, Blatty just leaves you bewildered. I found myself rereading a great many pages just to be sure I understood what had happened. One crucial moment had me so puzzled I was sure that the printer had accidentally left out a paragraph.