Together the couple embark on a panicked search for the source of their mutual torment, a journey that mires them in the history of their peculiar neighbors and the mysterious residents who lived in the house before Julie and James.

Stains are animated on the wall-contracting, expanding-and map themselves onto Julie's body in the form of bruises mold spores taint the water that James pours from the sink. The architecture-claustrophobic, riddled with hidden rooms within rooms-becomes unrecognizable, decaying before their eyes. As Julie and James try to settle into their home and their relationship, the house and its surrounding terrain become the locus of increasingly strange happenings. But this house, which sits between lake and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple. The move-prompted by James' penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check-is quick and seamless both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh. Written in eerie, powerful prose, THE GRIP OF IT is an enthralling and psychologically intense novel that deals in questions of home: how we make it and how it in turn makes us, inhabiting the bodies and the relationships we cherish.Julie and James settle into a house in a small town outside the city where they met. As the couple search for the source of their mutual torment, they become mired in the history of their peculiar neighbours and the mysterious previous residents of the house. Stains contract and expand, mapping themselves onto Julie’s body in the form of bruises mould taints the water that James pours from the sink. The architecture becomes unrecognisable, decaying before their eyes. But the house, which sits between lake and forest, has plans for the unsuspecting couple… The move-prompted by James’s penchant for gambling, his inability to keep his impulses in check-is quick and seamless both Julie and James are happy to leave behind their usual haunts and start afresh.

Jac Jemc’s The Grip of It is a chilling literary horror novel about a young couple haunted by their newly purchased home.Ī chilling literary horror novel, Jac Jemc’s THE GRIP OF IT tells the story Julia and James, a young couple haunted by their new home.

The Grip of It by Jac Jemc