{"id":6876,"date":"2021-02-27T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2021-02-27T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:20:08","slug":"megan-taylor-we-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/megan-taylor-we-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"MEGAN TAYLOR \u2013 WE WAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rare and simple thing, today, dear listener, as we post an actual book review. Not a hoax. Not a rambling offshoot into weird stuff by Yours Truly, but an honest-to-gods piece on a new and unsettling novel – We Wait <\/em>from Megan Taylor<\/strong> – by our regular guest reviewer Dave Brzeski (Spoiler: He really likes it).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong><\/em>A novel well worth reading; in fact it genuinely rewards re-reading. <\/strong>Quite simply this is the best modern <\/strong>G<\/strong><\/em>othic\u2026 the best haunted house story I\u2019ve read in an awful long time.\u201d<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We Wait<\/em> comes from Megan Taylor, the author of novels How We Were Lost<\/em>, The Dawning<\/em> and The Lives of Ghosts<\/em>, and a short story collection, The Woman Under the Ground<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

As it happens, Dave and I also had the pleasure of publishing Megan\u2019s excellent short story \u2018Exposing the Dead\u2019 in Occult Detective Magazine #5<\/strong> (then called Occult Detective Quarterly).<\/span><\/p>\n

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WE WAIT<\/span> by Megan Taylor<\/span><\/h2>\n

Eyrie Press<\/span><\/span><\/span>, paperback and Kindle<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Review by Dave Brzeski<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen comments from more than one reviewer who compared this novel to Shirley Jackson\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Haunting of Hill House<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>. It\u2019s immediately obvious that they weren\u2019t referring to the plot. There\u2019s no group of characters actively investigating a haunted house here. I could also see some thematic similarities to Stephen King\u2019s <\/span><\/span><\/span>The Shining<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>, but that would be equally misleading. This is very much its own book.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We Wait<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span> opens with an introductory passage in italics, which purports to be the whispering spirits of Greywater House, the country estate of Maddie\u2019s family. There are several other such passages here and there as the story progresses, but despite this, the supernatural element here is handled with great subtlety, which benefits the book immeasurably.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Maddie is brought to stay with her <\/span><\/span><\/span>A<\/span><\/span><\/span>unt Natalie at Greywater House, under a cloud due to events which occurred at her boarding school. She has been allowed to bring along her best friend, Ellie, who looks on it as a great adventure.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Things soon start to turn sour, even before they reach the house, as Ellie sees something that almost causes the<\/span><\/span><\/span>ir car<\/span><\/span><\/span> to crash \u2013 but there <\/span><\/span><\/span>i<\/span><\/span><\/span>s <\/span><\/span><\/span>apparently <\/span><\/span><\/span>nothing there. The tone of the book from here on is tense and somewhat bleak, and it gets progressively more so. The skill with which Megan Taylor introduces all the players while hinting at their many secrets is quite extraordinary.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The aged, bedridden relative, confined to a room at the top of the house is a classic <\/span><\/span><\/span>G<\/span><\/span><\/span>othic horror trope, but I\u2019ve rarely seen it handled in such a skilled, and very unsettling manner as it is here. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Aunt <\/span><\/span><\/span>Natalie\u2019s bedridden mother<\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>who we rarely see, or hear fr<\/span><\/span><\/span>om \u2013 <\/span><\/span><\/span>in fact she doesn\u2019t get a single line of dialogue, <\/span><\/span><\/span>nor do we find out her name (Marcia)<\/span><\/span><\/span> until fairly well into the book \u2013 absolutely creeped me out. The very thought of entering that room is instilled with a palpable feeling of dread.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ellie isn\u2019t only there to support her friend\u2026 she is also in dire need of a break. Her <\/span><\/span><\/span>own <\/span><\/span><\/span>mother is dying of cancer, which really doesn\u2019t help her delicate emotional state. Naturally, whatever supernatural influence pervades the house finds in Ellie a prime target.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I need to make a confession here – I read this a while back, then attempted to write a review. I found it very difficult to encapsulate what I felt, so I abandoned it for a couple of months. Then I approached the book again, having decided to make notes as I went along this time. The trouble is, this is one of those books you want people to have read already, so you can discuss it <\/span><\/span><\/span>without <\/span><\/span><\/span>risk of <\/span><\/span><\/span>spoilers, compare how you interpreted various events etc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much I\u2019d like to say about just the first part of this novel, but I find myself severely hampered by that sticky problem o<\/span><\/span><\/span>f spoilers. It is impossible, however, to not mention one aspect of the girls\u2019 relationship, as it\u2019s a central theme to the book. Let me just say that <\/span><\/span><\/span>Aunt <\/span><\/span><\/span>Natalie has her own reasons for disapproving, and the reaction of Maddie\u2019s father, Hugo, when he returns at the end of the first part, is not pleasant.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"megan<\/a><\/p>\n

Part Two, set thirty years earlier, concerns Natalie\u2019s story when she was close to the same age as Maddie and Ellie, and as the secrets of her family are gradually revealed, we begin to see <\/span><\/span><\/span>parallel<\/span><\/span><\/span>s. It\u2019s a story of bigotry, jealousy and dark deeds, which the house has absorbed, and these echoes of the past are in danger of being repeated.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the more obvious <\/span><\/span><\/span>such <\/span><\/span><\/span>parallels is the scenario of another girl and her school friend at Greywater House. This time, it\u2019s Natalie, <\/span><\/span><\/span>and her <\/span><\/span><\/span>friend Jessica<\/span><\/span><\/span> who are more or less in the same situation <\/span><\/span><\/span>as <\/span><\/span><\/span>Maddie<\/span><\/span><\/span> and Ellie in the first part. <\/span><\/span><\/span>This time we also have <\/span><\/span><\/span>a younger <\/span><\/span><\/span>Hugo, and their harridan of a mother.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The girl, Jessica, is the daughter of <\/span><\/span><\/span>Marcia\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span> brother-in-law from his first marriage, which means she\u2019s not even a blood relative. Marcia’s sister <\/span><\/span><\/span>has <\/span><\/span><\/span>basically dumped her stepdaughter on Marcia. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Here,<\/span><\/span><\/span> it\u2019s the nature of Natalie and Jessica\u2019s relationship that angers <\/span><\/span><\/span>Marcia, and t<\/span><\/span><\/span>here\u2019s no getting away from the fact that <\/span><\/span><\/span>she<\/span><\/span><\/span> is a bigot. She plots to <\/span><\/span><\/span>separate the girls by <\/span><\/span><\/span>having <\/span><\/span><\/span>her rake of a son seduce Jessica. It becomes apparent over time that this is a very complex novel. It\u2019s not just about bigotry over the girls\u2019 sexuality, no<\/span><\/span><\/span>r<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> is it about the other dark secrets the characters are keeping hidden or the house\u2019s malign influence. Everything feeds off of everything else.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the third and final part, we come back to the present, and things rapidly come to a head. It\u2019s not an easy read, if I\u2019m honest. There\u2019s a level of despair that becomes almost overwhelming. Don\u2019t be discouraged by that, though. <\/span><\/span><\/span>This is a complex novel well worth reading; in fact it genuinely rewards re-reading. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Quite simply this is the best modern Gothic\u2026 the best haunted house story I\u2019ve read in an awful long time. I\u2019d go as far as to say it\u2019s possibly one of the best, period.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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More about Megan Taylor’s work at:<\/p>\n

www.megantaylor.info<\/a><\/p>\n

\"megan<\/a><\/p>\n

And We Wait<\/em> is available now:<\/span><\/p>\n

We Wait on Amazon UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives I & II
\n<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Edited by John Linwood Grant<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>amazon us<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

amazon uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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