This is not a haunted house story in the way I expected. A few weird things happen, but the focus is not really on paranormal events at all; it's on the unraveling psychology of the main character, Eleanor, through whose eyes we experience a stay in a supposedly haunted house where haunting is teased and hinted at relentlessly, but very little haunting actually happens.

This does have one of the best opening paragraphs I've ever read. And the ending is abrupt, and sharp, and "kind of" works if you squint at it just so, but it feels like a short story ending, and this requires much more investment than a short story, so it left me feeling a little unsatisfied.