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This was my first Farris book and a quick read at that. It was very creepy with the phone calls from a dead boy. The killings were very mysterious and i felt like this started out as horror, but then turned out into a whodunit mystery. Once it was revealed as to who the killer was, i lost a little interest. Overall it was very entertaining and well written. I have about 5 other books from this author including All heads turn as the hunt goes by. May leave that one for last. Great first read thou...
a little predictable, but a quick easy read... entertaining....
Easy to follow with great details.
Although this book was slow in spots, it was a very good read! It's a bit dated and that felt like it held the book back of it in my opinion. But this was a deliciously creepy tail that I highly recommend to those who like slow-burning suspenseful stories.
When a little boy calls & says he's her nephew, somethings not right. Michael has been dead for 16 years.
I had plenty of library books but for some reason I picked up an old book of mine that had been sitting around forever. It turned out to be very good, not too scary but very much of a page-turner. Recommended for readers who don't want to be scared too much, also harkens back to the days before smart phones and other technology changed our world.
Helen Connelly is getting phone calls from a boy who says he is her nephew Michael (who has been dead for 16 years). Is this a crank caller, or could it really be Michael? Strange things are also happening to people who knew Michael... like accidental deaths, more phone calls, glimpses of young Michael in the night. Is this really Michael, and what does he want?I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I was wondering what was going to happen and if it really was Michael making these calls, and if not, wh...
WHEM MICHAEL CALLS, a 1967 novel, is as sturdy and unsplashy as its author, a prolific author of contemporary Southern gothic stories that straddle the line between horror, paranormal and crime fiction. The crime part is slightly dominant in this tale of what seems to be a long-dead boy making spooky phone calls to those who feels wronged him and his beloved late mother. Once the sepulchral trappings of the mystery, aided in no small part by the smartly rendered small-town-Ozarks setting, are st...
Solid premise and there are a few suspenseful moments, but I just couldn't get into this. Also, the ending was lame and creepy (not in the good way).
I enjoyed the story quite a bit. Nothing like mysterious phone calls from someone who is "supposed" to be dead! Fast paced, lots of action and some pretty good scary scenes. Now, it didn't keep me up at night or rechecking the back door locks, but it did entertain me. Hey, after all, that's why I enjoy horror. (Sure, I'd prefer to freak out at night, fixated at the slightly open closet door in the dark after reading a *great* horror story. But this book, with its decent story and flowing action
this is a book i remember reading as a teen. I wanted to know if i would still enjoy it. its a good teen story -- it reminded me how our world has changed. the book discussed winding watches and buying a soda for 20 cents! and with cell phones the story could never happen! ha ha
Suddenly this title popped into my head, and I know I read it when it came out in paperback. I don't remember it now...I need to read it again!
Good ghost story. You really can't go far wrong with Michael Farris.
3.5 stars
1.5 Sometimes my lust for 70s cheese just doesn’t go down well. The 1972 TV Movie of the Week starring young Michael Douglas was actually a vast improvement on this limping 🦃 !Super irked by the ending too.
- My Description -Don't answer the phone because Micheal knows your number. Helen Connolly's young nephew died in a tragic weather-related accident 16 years ago. She begins to receive harassing phone calls from him. Is it the ghost of young Micheal or was he ever really dead? - My Review -This was a pretty cool mystery. It had downright terrifying parts, one in particular, for me. This book reminded me a lot of The Black-Eyed kids you always read about in ghost stories. The book is set in the Fa...
Read this thriller back when I was in Junior High - it still holds up pretty well. Has some genuine creepiness but the culprit is pretty obvious from the get-go.
Decent little horror thriller about people receiving threatening phone calls. Unfortunately it loses steam once it drops the horror and veers into whodunit.
Another great book by John Farris. Again, he wove a plot twist I didn't see coming and had me spellbound from the first page to the last. Don't miss this one!
A lot of 5 star reviews on this one, so I figured I would give it a go. A short read, but I was able to figure it out The Whodunit very quickly and the book itself reveals whodunit if you will well before the book is over. The book itself seemed to have a pattern, and imo an annoying one at that. You would start a chapter, and it would be long and drawn out. A lot of unnecessary details or conversations, or descriptions of things, and then the last two pages of the chapter would start to pick an...
