Adams Fall Book

It's an especially bleak and gray October at the College, and the brooding protagonist of Adams Fall finds himself under the classic strains of first semester senior year-a thesis to write, grad schools and fellowships to apply for, a future to ponder, and a girlfriend to elude. A full, but manageable load for any bright-eyed, self-starting English honors student.But our protagonist resides in Adams House's reportedly haunted B-entry where he becomes eerily attuned to its dark, gothic strength, creaking floorboards, and shadowy stairwell and tunnels.And when he finds himself the object of the house's sinister attentions, his world quickly begins to unravel. As his grades and aspirations slip, so slips his mind...Into his crumbling Ivy League existence enters a charming and vindictive playboy from the College's past who continually harasses the protagonist about the circumstances surrounding the suicide of his freshman year roommate. When faced with the grisly murder of a woman he had been cheating on his girlfriend with, our desperate protagonist resolves to discover the identity of this depraved spirit, put an end to its raging, and restore sanity and some small sliver of success to his final year of school. With a tip of its hat to Henry James, Adams Fall elegantly blends ghost story and psychological thriller, and terrifyingly reveals how academic pressures can quickly build into murderous paranoia.