The premise was sooo interesting: In the early 1900's, a man and a girl commit suicide under very mysterious circumstances at a remote beach house. In the present day, which happens to be the 80's, two women and their teenaged children rent the house and weird things start to happen.This should have really held my interest, but it didn't. The characters were agonizingly dull, their reactions frustrating, there was no sense of pacing or heigtened suspense. It took me about a month to get through it, I kept putting it down to read other things...like cereal boxes, War & Peace, etc.