The Raising by Laura Kasischke

By Eithne Farry  on Monday 18 July 2011

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An atmospheric shiver-fest set on an American university campus, where a deadly car crash is the catalyst for some spookily vengeful goings-on

An atmospheric shiver-fest set on an American university campus, where a deadly car crash is the catalyst for some spookily vengeful goings-on.

When golden girl Nicole Werner is killed in a car crash, her snotty, jealous, over-indulged boyfriend Craig – who was driving at the time – manages somehow to escape unscathed. Strange rituals in Nicole’s sorority 
sisters’ basement add to the air of spooky uncertainty. Then Nicole starts to appear, ghost-like, in the corner of photographs or in the bedrooms of boys – with deadly seduction on her mind.

Upset by this eerie apparition, 
and in the hope of gaining some insider knowledge about ghosts, Craig’s room-mate Perry Edwards signs up for a class run by cultural anthropologist Mira 
Polson. Her teaching methods for her specialist subject, ‘death, dying and 
the undead’ involve trips to the 
morgue, burial superstitions and lessons on decomposition. But all is not as 
it seems, as one supernatural denier finds to her cost in this devious, 
claustrophobic chiller. 

Reviewed by Eithne Farry

Review by Eithne Farry

Release date: Monday 18 July 2011

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