Haunted / James Herbert / 219 pages / Deceased Author Challenge

David Ash has quite a reputation for solving mysteries of the paranormal, or the irregular normal as he prefers to call it.  He works for the Psychical Research Institute.  His job is to debunk charlatans, often persons who claim to be mediums to separate people from their money, or to dispel rumors of hauntings.  A terrible incident in his childhood has compelled him to disprove the existence of ghosts.  When sent to the Edbrook Estate in rural Ravenwood, England, however, he is forced to confront the very real possibility that ghosts do exist.  This is a spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat horror story, well told and extraordinarily well-written.