I've been meaning to read this haunted house story for some time and the opening hasn't disappointed me.
It's read by R.C Bray, who I always think of as having a "Joe Friday" voice although his range is much broader than that. He's the perfect choice for this very late seventies early eighties kind of horror.
If this were being done today, I think there would be a rush to get the young family to the haunted house so bad things could start to happen before people lose interest. Marasco goes a different route. He makes the oppression of living in a crowded, noisy apartment block in Queens in the heat and the humidity come alive and he gives us time to look at wife and husband and how they are alone and apart. It's an encouraging start,
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