Enjoyable, but not exactly what I was expecting. Hundreds Hall, the Georgian-era haunted house in The Little Stranger isn't the Overlook Hotel; the effect of the hauntings in the book are subtle, ambiguous. They are maybe delusions of a mentally ill mind, or possibly a consequence of isolated people imagining things while living in a huge estate visibly rotting around them. Or perhaps even something else. The book is mostly about lonely people interacting with each other in some craphole Warwickshire village in post-WWII England, and a touch of the difficulty of old landed gentry families adjusting to the modern world. I did enjoy it (I read it in 2 days) but it left me feeling cold at the end, wanting more. I can't help but wish for more than what the book was. One major weakness was the first-person narrative which felt a little flat. I found myself feeling rather indifferent towards the narrator, Dr. Faraday. I wonder how Hilary Mantel would have written the story.