Review of The Gravewatcher by Rockwell Scott

Eleanor and Simon Cole. I still remember them. They are the most significant characters of the supernatural horror story written by Rockwell Scott, an independent horror novelist who specializes in creepy stories about haunted houses, and ghosts.

Thanks to his mastery, this American author has been able to build a solid writing career in the world of supernatural novels.

Just think that he has over 400 reader’s reviews on Amazon, and no review on literature magazines. However, with only a compelling series of horror books that you can easily find on his website, this writer centered the goal to sell his stories to a large audience.

I premise that it is a novel for those who really love this literary genre. I love it, indeed!

The reading left me frightened, and emotionally involved. Eleanor is a career woman with a busy life in New York City. A day, she receives an anonymous letter informing her that her brother, Dennis, committed suicide in a dilapidated and solitary house in Finnick, a remote fictional village in Louisiana.

As of that day, Eleanor will be forced to go to this village, to discover the mystery around the death of Dennis.

Her journey will be surrounded by strange personages, such as sheriff Carson, or Sean, the kind man she meets at the saloon during her initial stop to the village.

To discover how Dennis died, Eleanor chooses to spend her stay in the same house where the brother has been found hanged.

During the permanence in this ancient manor, she notes a guy, Walter, who every night, at 3 o’clock appears out of the window in a sort of trance.

He follows him and discovers that Walter talks to the gravestones of the nearby cemetery.

She tries to wake him, but this act interrupts a sort of ritual that unleashes a creepy chain of supernatural events. Many of them occur in the old house where she stays.

The story is apparently meaningless, but several circumstances and dialogues will show the true reason of the transcendental happenings Eleanor came across.

She is not a believer, but the terrible situation pushes her to turn to the priest of the village, Simon Cole, the only character who could know the awful truth about the house where Dennis killed himself.

Many locals, such as the sheriff, are diffident towards Eleanor, and want her to leave the village. Even the mom of Walter, the guy who watches and talks with the tombs in the cemetery, doesn’t love her cumbersome presence.

But the presences to dispel are elsewhere, are supernatural demons that arise from the innermost fears and human anguishes, and from the difficulty to accept the reality as it really is.

This is a story with a high degree of suspense and emotional strain. It is gripping, overwhelming, and can arouse a certain level of inquietude.

The scenes seem so vivid and real that you can feel as if disquieting entities exit the book to enter your room.

The novel is excellent, Eleanor and Simon Cole are its heroes, and I hope that a producer can be able to draw a movie from this book.

I already have the names of the actors who can play the roles of Eleanor and Simon Cole. They are Sandra Bullock and Morgan Freeman.

In the meanwhile, be careful to not turn off the light in your bedroom as soon as you finish reading The Gravewatcher. One never knows…