House of Darkness House of Light: The True Story Volume One

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Roger and Carolyn Perron purchased the home of their dreams and eventual nightmares in December of 1970. The Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island seemed the idyllic setting in which to raise a family. The couple unwittingly moved their five young daughters into the ancient and mysterious farmhouse. Secrets were kept and then revealed within a space shared by mortal and immortal alike. Time suddenly became irrelevant; fractured by spirits making their presence known then dispersing into the ether. The house is a portal to the past and a passage to the future. This is a sacred story of spiritual enlightenment, told some thirty years hence. The family is now somewhat less reticent to divulge a closely-guarded experience. Their odyssey is chronicled by the eldest sibling and is an unabridged account of a supernatural excursion. Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated this haunting in a futile attempt to intervene on their behalf. They consider the Perron family saga to be one of the most compelling and significant of a famously ghost-storied career as paranormal researchers. During a séance gone horribly wrong, they unleashed an unholy hostess; the spirit called Bathsheba...a God-forsaken soul. Perceiving herself to be mistress of the house, she did not appreciate the competition. Carolyn had long been under siege; overt threats issued in the form of fire...a mother’s greatest fear. It transformed the woman in unimaginable ways. After nearly a decade the family left a once beloved home behind though it will never leave them, as each remains haunted by a memory. This tale is an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit on a pathway of discovery: an eternal journey for the living and the dead.

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July 25, 2015
Absolutely disappointed with the amount of paranormal events described in this book, they were only a few mentions of ghostly encounters. It mostly rambled on about family bonds, cosmos, how things happen for a reason etc etc. I was hoping for a good true horror story instead I got a whole bunch of information about absolutely nothing. Also the amount of grammar mistakes in this book is ridiculous. Save yourself the time and skip past this book.
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A Google user
April 12, 2017
This book is ALL about Andrea's need for attention, yet she says her younger sister Nancy was/is the needy one. The phrases "boo" "speed of light" "message recieved" etc ad nausea!. Seriously I read it on a 10 inch tablet and there was a whole page that size devoted to running down Nancy's friend Katy as the demon seed (Perron's words). She talks in the third person and litteraly skips bac and forth, such as the well digging thing, it was I thought finnished then she startedwriting about it agian with just about the same paragraphs. I HONESTLY THINK SHE'S MENTALLY ILL AND/OR DRUNK AS WELL WHEN SHE WROTE THESE PIECES OF CRAP!!. I WANT MY MONEY BACK! Please just do not do like I did and believe the bad reviews were wrong,lol the bad reviews were every bit as true as MINE is. Sad but true.
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March 3, 2012
The subject matter of this book and the infamy of this house should have been more than enough to create a compelling and fantastic story. How disappointing that it did not deliver. Ms. Perrone is a very, very poor writer; her writing was redundant, her thoughts scattered and not fully developed, her recounting of a true history completely lacked a structured timeline. She overly detailed the first two years in the house then skipped, quite vaguely, to the last years. She repeatedly made reference to the Warren's involvment, yet never never gave details. I personally became irrationally irritated by her overuse of the word "harbinger" as well as her rambling attempt to philosophize how the family's experiences shaped their later lives and her ubiquitous cutesy little quips (for example: "Lo! and behold" or "Be careful what you wish for" etc, etc). I would rather have had the 500+ pages filled with all the important details she left out! Knowing that she has threatened two more volumes in this sage could explain the lack of detail in the first book. It also reinforces my opinion that Ms. Perrone is a terrible writer.
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About the author

Andrea Perron was born in Rhode Island in 1958. She is a graduate of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pa., having earned an inter-disciplinary degree in philosophy and English literature. This memoir waited thirty years to be told, allowing the time and distance necessary for her family to reveal these long held secrets. The author is currently preparing for release of the second volume in this remarkable trilogy. John Shaw created the cover portrait of their farmhouse as a parting gift. Two months after the Perron family abandoned this place in the country, John, all of nineteen years old, drove from Rhode Island to Georgia. He presented his friends with the watercolor; painted from memory, in memory of a special house which touched his life as well. It remains a treasured keepsake. They loved him then as they love him now.

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