The new edition of HOUSE OF SPIRITS AND WHISPERS features a new preface from the author, photographs, and bonus material.
House of Spirits and Whispers
About
We had been instructed to enter by the back door. That’s the part of the house where the old man had lived. It was where he still lived. Turns out he was watching us that day, too, silent and heavy as the air, bound to the earth and his former home.
In 1994, Annie Wilder and her children moved into a 100-year-old house in a historic Mississippi River town. Beautiful but spooky, the house had been on the market for six months with no offers. It felt like — and proved to be — a very haunted house.
Essentially the story of a remarkable old Victorian house that seems to be a threshold to the spirit world and the astral realm, HOUSE OF SPIRITIS AND WHISPERS has a backstory of the Wilder family’s relationship with the ghost of the home’s previous owner, an old man named Leon.
Covering a decade’s worth of ghostly activity and supernatural encounters, from whispering radiators to visits and appearances from all manner of spirits and entities, this unusual story is the true account of Annie Wilder’s experiences living in a haunted house.
From the Introduction
It was a house filled with stories and secrets…
I sensed it from the moment I first stepped inside, into air so still and heavy it felt a hundred years old. Outside, the day was overcast, with the brisk, damp breeziness of late winter. Inside, in the dim light, I could feel the charged melancholy, clinging to faded draperies and lingering in worn carpets. Even the dust seemed to be watching and waiting as my long-suffering realtor and I made our way through the many rooms and unexpected turns of the century-old house, converted from a single-family home to a triplex decades before. We opened one door only to find another behind it. And what looked like a closet turned out to be a maid’s staircase, which turned a corner and ended.
But neither the occasional madhouse architecture nor the forlorn shabbiness that had descended upon the old house could hide its grandeur and beauty. Its high ceilings, hardwood floors, leaded-glass windows, open staircase, and four porches were glorious beyond anything I’d ever imagined I could afford, and with each unexplored room we encountered, I could feel my spirits rise. On my budget, any house I bought was bound to have some sort of shortcomings. By my standards, funky architecture and maybe even a resident ghost could hardly even be considered problems.
We had been instructed to enter by the back door. That’s the part of the house where the old man had lived. It was where he still lived. Turns out he was watching us that day too, silent and heavy as the air, bound to the earth and his former home.
Praise for House of Spirits and Whispers
AWARDS:
2005 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist
2006 COVR Visionary Awards Finalist
ACCOLADES:
“For a fine reading experience, and another look at the paranormal and its secrets, Annie Wilder gives you a topnotch, first-rate journey into the unknown … splendid reading”
— Review by Lee Prosser for GhostVillage.com
I was hooked…This (story) led you in by the hand and kept you there.
—Bite Me: The Journal of the Vampire and Its Kin
HOUSE OF SPIRITS AND WHISPERS is a well-paced, engaging love story of a woman and a house — each spirited in its own way.
—Ghost!
