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Killer Lake – W.D.A modern Giallo, Everson's homage to the stylish Italian mystery thrillers.

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Hell, you don’t get a Bram Stoker Award for being a hack. The guy has talent and you can see it in his past catalog. HOUSE is easily the best thing Everson has written. Sure, there are some parts where you kind of roll your eyes, maybe a character should ask a few more questions, but they’re not deal breakers. This is how Everson is able to pull this story all together. The cast and crew, putting together and running the attraction, all have personalities that we know like the back of our hands. Katie is that mysterious, flirtatious girl you’ve seen work her charm on numerous lonely guys, over and over. Mike is a likable guy that you can easily relate to. While HOUSE has a fantastic setting that is just screaming for a horror story to be written about it, the characters are the glue that hold this story together. Wouldn’t you know it, Mike learns that every rumor has a grain of truth somewhere and you can’t keep a good witch down. Mike, a down-and-out handyman, is hired to renovate the place so that they can turn it into the tourist attraction that it was envisioned to be. So when a local entrepreneur comes calling and offers to turn the property into a haunted house attraction, the county jumps at the chance to alleviate this headache and score some bucks in the process. Law enforcement has to chase off ghost hunters and thrill seekers every year. The house is a royal pain in the ass for the county. Stories of ghosts hitchhiking nearby, strange happenings and haunted tales permeate the local legends for years. This place was used for a cult killing by a group of witches back in the 1960s.

But the rumors are passed down from generation to generation. Outside of thrill seekers, it’s been dormant for many years. We understand the industry and HOUSE has everything that we love about it.Ī dilapitated house sits vacant by an abandoned cemetery. That’s us and that’s who Everson wrote The House by the Cemetery for. And we go to haunted houses, no matter how crappy of an attraction they are. We have the wal-to-wall collections of horror Blu Rays. We’re the ones that go to the midnight showings of classic Carpenter, Craven or even Argento or Fulci flicks. The House by the Cemetery is meant for horror fans.