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Title: Seven Days in Benevolence
Author: Steven E. Wedel
Narrator: Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-26-13
Publisher: Steven E. Wedel
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Paranormal
Publisher's Summary:
Dena was recently divorced and ready for a new life in Benevolence. She had a new job and an old house. The job was promising. The house was perfect. It had plenty of space for her and her two daughters. It had a great yard. It was just what she needed. She really thought this week was going to be the start of something wonderful.
The house had other ideas...
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Always a good read!
Seven Days in Benevolence by Steven Wedel
I've always enjoyed a good ghost or haunted house story. I wasn't disappointed with Seven Days in Benevolence. At about 120 pages, this short told over the course of seven days, really sucked me in at first. The main character Dena has just been through a divorce, for reasons that are brought up through some really great dialogue with her ex. So her and her two daughters have moved to Benevolence, Oklahoma for a new beginning.
Dena finds the perfect house, and for just the right price. She's positive that things are starting to look up. That's when things start going really wrong. Her oldest daughter Rebecca hears stories from the children at school, that the house is haunted by people who were killed in it. Dena continues to push aside the strange happenings in the house, saying they are just her imagination. Like doors not staying shut, weird ripples in the bath water, light bulbs burning out, and batteries dying after they've just been taken out of the package. Everything comes to a head when the ghosts start speaking to Dena and her family.
I was really creeped out by all the little things that were happening in the house. It probably didn't help that I have just moved into a new house as well.
I did have a couple problems with the ending. Dismembering a man's penis in order to defeat the ghost just didn't work for me. That man's penis being used as a weapon on a small child was even worse (no it didn't end up being used that way, thank goodness). Overall, it's a great story that builds up nicely, but has an okay ending.
Must read for ghost story fans!
"Mommy, the skelegan head wants to talk to you."
Recently divorced mom of two Dena has come to rest in Benevolence, a small town where she thinks she can find peace after the turmoil of leaving behind her husband and trying to make a life of her own with her two daughters. Unfortunately she's run straight into Benevolence's most historically interesting--and haunted--house.
Everyone in the town seems eager to tell Dena and her older daughter the tangled tale of murder, lynching, witchery and hauntings. But Dena wants nothing more than to make a clean break from her troubled past and enjoy her luck in finding a lovely home. The house's invisible occupants also want Dena to stay and make her and her two daughters part of their own story.
A classically creepy ghost story, Seven Days in Benevolence is a fast paced, tantalizingly horrific novella that's perfect for hungry ghost story fans. The short length makes it an easy read, and its dazzling climax will leave readers breathless.
short but good
i loved the book the only thing is it was to short.i would of made it a little longer & a little scarier..but other than that it was a good short story.