Very good, atmospheric writing. I often felt I was inside the characters' heads - and this was usually not a nice place to be. The villagers' take on things left me wondering if this was actually a ghost story with the point-of-view characters being the ghosts. 
 But it never really felt like I was reading a horror story (we read this as a group read in the Horror group). 
 I'm a simple soul at heart so I tend to prefer stories where something happens, rather than out-and-out character studies. From this author, I much preferred The Haunting of Hill House. 
 Saying that I'll give this book another read since I suspect I missed a number of things on the first read through. 
 As an afterthought, for some reason, it makes me think of To Kill a Mockingbird. Same feel.