{"id":8294,"date":"2015-12-30T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:38:31","slug":"review-the-childrens-home-by-charles-lambert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-the-childrens-home-by-charles-lambert\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#039;The Children&#039;s Home&#039; by Charles Lambert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Childrens-Home-Novel-Charles-Lambert\/dp\/1501117394\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1451484058&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+children%27s+home+charles+lambert\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7308\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/childrenshome-196x300.jpg?resize=196%2C300\" alt=\"childrenshome\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/>The Children&#8217;s Home<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Lambert<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Scribner\u00a0(January 5, 2016)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>224\u00a0pages; $24 hardcover\/$11.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanreitan\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Reitan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer Charles Lambert\u2019s name may not be immediately recognizable by horror aficionados, but in early 2016 the genre will get his first sampling, and it\u2019s a name you won\u2019t soon forget. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lambert\u2019s previous releases have included a memoir, an award-winning short story collection and psychological thriller novels. In the British author&#8217;s latest,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Children\u2019s Home<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Lambert offers us a delightful work of parts dark fairy tale and literary horror. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A childhood accident has left Morgan Fletcher\u2019s face disfigured resulting in his becoming a recluse, never to leave his massive family estate and Gothic mansion. Morgan isn\u2019t left alone for long as one day, out of the blue, two children mysteriously show up and take residence in the sprawling mansion. As young David and Moria get comfortable, more children from the nearby town start arriving. Toddlers walk in from behind the bushes while babies are left on the doorstep. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A housekeeper, Engel, and a local physician, Dr. Crane, also take up residence among Morgan\u2019s new horde of children, offering him assistance while tackling the many mysteries of their whereabouts and of the house itself. Where did they come from? What are they finding hidden in the attic and library? What mysteries of Morgan\u2019s past are they exposing? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lambert paints a war-torn post apocalyptic landscape when Morgan finally ventures out of his estate once a child has been taken from them. Are the children parentless because of the war? Little answers stir the imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Children\u2019s Home<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wonderfully plays with your mind. Are the children real or are they ghosts? As they hauntingly come and go, their arrival forces Morgan to uncover truths he\u2019s hidden for decades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Children\u2019s Home<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a haunting Gothic in the vein of Shirley Jackson, steeped with the mystery and imagination of Neil Gaiman\u2019s fairy tales. Lambert\u2019s prose is beautiful and his tale is mesmerizing. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Children&#8217;s Home\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Lambert Scribner\u00a0(January 5, 2016) 224\u00a0pages; $24 hardcover\/$11.99 e-book Reviewed by Jonathan Reitan Writer Charles Lambert\u2019s name may not be immediately recognizable by horror aficionados, but in early 2016 the genre will get his first sampling, and it\u2019s a name you won\u2019t soon forget. Lambert\u2019s previous releases have included a memoir, an award-winning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-the-childrens-home-by-charles-lambert\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: &#039;The Children&#039;s Home&#039; by Charles Lambert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[561,42,92,79,562],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-charles-lambert","tag-featured","tag-jonathan-reitan","tag-reviews","tag-the-childrens-home"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: &#039;The Children&#039;s Home&#039; 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