I am a huge Kim Newman fan - anyone who has devoted their life to the pursuit of horror and scares gets a free pass from me. So I was willing this book to be good, and to my relief it was. Really good. It starts off all Magic Cottage-like, and then things quickly go to crap. Fast. In fact, things turned creepy so early on the book that I almost wasn't ready for it. There were some good scary moments, and I loved the 'magic' chest of drawers (I kind of want one but at the same time would be too scared to have it in the house). I don't think the book got the ending it deserved, but then I usually want things to end really badly so that might just be me. Best ghost story I've read in a while, and the first book where the most three-dimensional character was a chest of drawers. And that, believe it or not folks, is a compliment.