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Maynards House
by Herman Raucher
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Berkley (1981-09-01)
ISBN: 0425050793
EAN: 9780425050798
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Binding/Media: Paperback - 272 pages
Edition: First Edition
SKU: P0096-7
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Tight spine, clean pages. Previous owners name inside book.
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Customer Reviews
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It still haunts me after 10 years
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-06-30
I read this book ten years ago, and it still haunts me. I checked it out from a small town library in Southwest Arkansas, ten years ago and loved it. I have not found it in any of the larger libraries in Northwest Arkansas, so I plan to buy it some day just so I can read it again. I found it to be a book that almost wraps a spell around the reader, just like a spell is wrapped around the character in the book.
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Great Book.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2009-10-09
This was one of the first books I read dealing with hauntings, witchcraft and, of course, Id never heard of minniwickies before.
When I first started getting heavily into reading horror books, after breaking away from the big names like Stephen King and Dean Koontz, I started reading all kinds of authors, but this one stuck with me and I've read it several times since then. From the first pages it draws you in, has suspense, humor and edge of your seat, page turning moments of action. I won't say anymore since there are plenty of well written reviews. But it's definitely worth the extra cash to check it out.
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More than a witch tale
Rating (5)
Date: 2009-01-30
I read this book 30 years ago and loved it so much that I bought it and read it again (I rarely read a book more than once). It's the kind of book that makes you flip back through the pages to re-read about an earlier event.
Combine the long new England winter with the tale of a witch's house--a house that had to burned down or the witch's soul would return to the house--the witch's tree and other supernatural events, and you have a page-turner that is difficult to put down. The ending will make you go back and re-read the first several pages. The main character's experiences will perplex you as he finds himself in the middle of a frightening ritual, and his transformation from the beginning of the novel to the end will surprise you.
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Surprising.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-05-18
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Herman Raucher, Maynard's House (Berkley, 1980)
What do you do when your best friend dies in your arms in Vietnam and leaves you his house? Austin Fletcher finds himself in this dilemma in Herman Raucher's novel Maynard's House. The problem is, the house in the middle of the Maine woods, and when Austin gets back to civilization, it's the middle of winter. The journey does not start off auspiciously; the traintracks are blocked by a wall of snow, so Austin hikes it into the small logging town of Belden, almost dying in the process. He meets Jack Meeker, the town's stationmaster, who takes him up to the house, filling him with even more stories of the supernatural than he got from Maynard.
Maynard's House is billed as a horror novel, but is actually one of those books that came out during the eighties labelled horror simply because its publisher didn't know what else to call it (Geoffrey Household's The Sending and Stephen Gregory's The Woodwitch being the two finest examples of this trend). What it actually is is a drama about a Vietnam vet, probably with post-traumatic stress disorder, fighting off going quietly insane, and the forces acting on him. Those who go into this book expecting your basic horror novel are going to be disappointed; thos with more of an open mind will get a bunch more out of it. ***
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Northwood Dreams
Rating (4)
Date: 2002-03-31
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Anyone who has travelled or lived in the northern hinterlands of Maine, specifically the Moosehead/Kahtahdin region, can attest to the fact that this book truly captures the atmosphere of a beautiful and remote area. On the surface it appears to be a ghost story with a young Vietnam veteran as the protagonist. He inherits a remote house from a buddy who was killed in action and once taking residence, is subjected to a multi-layered attack of witchcraft, time shifts, poltergeists, and the like. This keeps the reader off balance and is a good and satisfying story in the occult genre. But the real power of this work is in Raucher's ability to capture the feeling of this area and the quirky demeanor of its inhabitants including speech mannerisms and slightly off center sense of humor. In all, this writer would recommend it to any person with an interest in ghost stories, life in the north woods, the occult, and maybe even love stories; for this story has a surreal romance that in places reads like the books that Raucher is better known for[ Summer of 42, for example].
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