Jenn has just lost her father in a horrendous murder, then she loses her job. Since she has recently inherited her Aunt Meredith’s house in California, she and her roommate decide to spend some time there while deciding what to do next.
What they don’t realize is that her Aunt was a witch and her uncle was (probably) the infamous Pumpkin Man. This urban legend surrounds a series of horrible murders in the small community with the victims’ bodies being found without their heads and pumpkin scraps in the vicinity.
The book had creepy moments and plenty of things going on, but I found myself having to suspend belief a lot throughout the book. Jenn and her friends find many things on the property that would have sent any normal person running away. Instead, in true horror movie fashion, they decide to leave law enforcement out of it and try to solve things on their own. And, they keep using a Ouija board to try to contact Aunt Meredith! (Of course, this doesn’t end well!).
The narrator did a good job and added a lot to my ability to keep listening. To me, the book could have been much shorter and still gotten the story across. Not a bad book, but not one I will revisit.