Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected.“A spectacular read…absolutely gripping. I couldn’t force myself to put it down.” – The Horror Report.#1 Amazon Best-Seller in Ghosts, Gothic, U.S. Horror, & LGBT Horror.Featured on:
PopSugar’s Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.
Inquisitr’s Best Horror Books of 2018.
Ranker’s 2018’s Scariest … 2018.
This terrifying slow-burn combines the literary Gothic prose of Shirley Jackson, Ambrose Bierce, & Thomas Tryon with the “what’s really real?” aspects of The Shining. Cabin Green has also been compared to the devastation of Hereditary and the socially progressive, ambiguous approach of Paul Tremblay.
Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée was Ben’s first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, “There’s no such thing as an evil building.” Now he’s caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.
This modern Gothic horror story takes the reader directly into Ben’s hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that’s filled with more twists than a roller coaster.
More than 5,000 readers have checked in to Cabin Green. Don’t miss your reservation for this unique Gothic nightmare.
- “A haunting tale.” – PopSugar
- “Paralyzing.” – Medium.com
- “Slow-burn claustrophobia.” – Grit Daily
- “Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down…with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques.” – The Inquisitr.
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AWARDS:
TOP VOTE GETTER: Best Horror/Suspense – The Kindle Book Review (TKBR) Reader’s Choice Awards 2018.
RUNNER-UP: Best Overall Book of 2018 – TKBR Reader’s Choice Awards
SEMIFINALIST: TKBR’s 2018 Jury Award for Best Horror/Suspense
Content Warning: Contains gore, sex, profanity, & deeply disturbing psychological themes. This isn’t a fluffy horror story; it’s true, descriptive Gothic horror that’s emblematic of the destructive nature of grief & also contains societal/political/religious critiques. For mature readers only.
Inspired by a real-life, spooky green cabin in Northern Michigan that’s so well-hidden it can’t be found by GPS! This book also contains a disturbing section that was inspired by real-life events.
Reviews:
“A spectacular read…absolutely gripping. I couldn’t force myself to put it down. Taylor did an excellent and meticulous job creating this story, forming imagery…invoking real emotion on the part of the reader.” – The Horror Report
“A breath of fresh air…instilling such a deep, feral fear of the unknown that Shirley Jackson would be proud. Taylor doesn’t pull any punches, and she refuses to play it safe, something that the horror genre could use a lot more of.” – Mangled Matters
“Sucked me in from the first page… Taylor pulls the rug out from under her readers… a well-structured and integrated climax. I read this book in one sitting… fighting the urge to turn on all the lights.” – Connal Bain, Author of Blood Moon Fever
“Unique… the author depicts the grieving process amazingly well. The story is claustrophobic… and what an ending. All of the flashbacks and delusions suddenly make sense… [it’s a] sucker punch.” – HorrorTalk
“Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down..the crazy whirlwind that ensues is enough to make even the biggest horror fan a bit dizzy…with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-20th century techniques.” – Inquisitr
“Filled with so much grief and craziness that I might need therapy.” – BoredPandamore
An intricately woven modern gothic novel, Cabin Green is not for the impatient. It’s a delicately woven tapestry of paranormal and psychological as the main character Ben, searches desperately for a way to grieve the loss of his fiancé.
Strange things are afoot at the cabin, and the reader gets thrown deep into the madness, constantly wondering if Ben is crazy, or something evil is at work.
Layer upon layer gets peeled back to reveal this slow simmer of an ending, as Taylor expertly takes us from present to past to uncover the terrible accident that claimed his fiancé’s life, his life with his parents, and a sinister force within the house itself.
Read the first three or four chapters, skim through the middle, and then read from Chapter 41 to the end (it ends on page 269, so there’s not far to go), and there you have it. Provided, that is, if you even care at that point how it ends. The author can’t seem to decide on a cause for the strange events in the story, so offers a couple of suggestions and seem to settle on a combination of the two.
The middle of the book drags on and on, and it all starts to seem the same. It’s boring and tedious. In essence it feels like it’s just filler and two thirds of it could be cut and you wouldn’t miss anything because it doesn’t move the plot along. Sure there are weird, and I suppose terrifying, things happening but it feels more annoying than anything else because the story seems to be going nowhere. It’s flat because the tension is circular.
And Chapter 27, well that was just unnecessarily disgusting, and since it didn’t move the story forward it was gratuitous.
I skimmed and/or speed read a great deal of the middle. The ending had a kind of “oh, no” factor, but it wasn’t worth the journey at all. A big part of the “oh, no” was the thought of the story perhaps continuing.
There are quite a few good to excellent thriller/horror/Gothic novels to be found, spend your time on those.
Moral of the story for me? Don’t mistake beta readers for proofreaders, line editors, or copy editors.
I guess it wasn’t my cup of tea; waited too long to find out what was going on, not enough suspense, just a lot of confusion.
I almost gave up on this book several times. It didn’t keep my attention like I had hoped it would according to reviews. A little slow for me.
Good read……unexpected ending….
I tend to only stay with books I’d rate a 4 or 5. I’m half way through the Haunting of Cabin Green and it is one of them. Very original and chilling the way fantasy and reality slide into each other for the character; it reminds me of Poe.
It reminds me a lot of The Shining in that I spent a lot of time wondering if the events were really happening or if he was losing his mind. I did not see the end coming and it took my breath away. It’s a very good book.
Saw this book on twitter. Glad I grabbed a copy! Reminded me a bit of the last half of Black Mad Wheel. Still hard to know exactly what was real. The ending was fitting(and surprising) but sad.
This is a trippy, surreal experience. It’s very smart horror that’s critical of society and has the highly descriptive, almost lyrical qualities of many early Gothic books. But if you don’t like a slow build that demands your constant attention, you might want to pick a different book. That said, it didn’t confuse me at all, and I liked the liberal mindset. I see that some people here didn’t. I guess a book that criticizes bigots and showcases the melting pot of American culture isn’t going to be a big hit with everyone, sadly.
I read this after seeing it on several best horror posts. So good I’ll be buying more copies to give as gifts! The slow burn, classic horror style is right up my alley. Best example of Gothic horror I’ve read in a long time.
This book will challenge its readers, and that is a good thing. You will not guess where she is going when you read this book.
You are taken on a nightmarish, uncomfortable journey and you soon realize you can’t count on the standard rules of storytelling. The author is brave enough to push the envelope and leave you not even guessing the end!