RaveGlobe and MailDrawing on both historical narrative and urban myth, Pyper adeptly navigates the nuances of the genre, using the complexities of the form to move beyond shocks and thrills. Pyper’s ability to make one question truths, what they witness, and even their own existence, is horror in the tradition of Henry James’s Turn of the Screw and Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. As in his novels The Homecoming, The Other Child and The Guardians, Pyper’s particular skill at isolating his characters and drawing on their weaknesses creates a backdrop from which ghosts of one’s past push them to commit the unthinkable. And he’s done it again with The Residence.
