{"id":2780,"date":"2012-02-06T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2012-03-06T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T20:50:20","slug":"the-crazy-old-lady-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2780","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy Old Lady in the Attic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005AJC0JA\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B005AJC0JA\">The Crazy Old Lady in the Attic<\/a><\/em> (2011) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/valentine_kathleen.php\">Kathleen Valentine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mattie&#8217;s grandmother has died. As Mattie and her husband pack up the brownstone in Boston to sell, Mattie begins to discover that all was not right in the world in which she grew up.<\/p>\n<p>This was an interesting short story. It&#8217;s labelled as horror, but it&#8217;s not things-that-go-bump-in-the-night horror.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>eBook (short story) published by the author(?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crazy Old Lady in the Attic (2011) Kathleen Valentine Mattie&#8217;s grandmother has died. As Mattie and her husband pack up the brownstone in Boston to sell, Mattie begins to discover that all was not right in the world in which she grew up. This was an interesting short story. It&#8217;s labelled as horror, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-IQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24253,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24253","url_meta":{"origin":2780,"position":0},"title":"The Lawrence Browne Affair","author":"Michelle","date":"February 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Lawrence Browne Affair (2017) Cat Sebastian (The Turners #2) Set in England in 1817 Georgie had too much practice deceiving others to be able to deceive himself. \u201cI apologize,\u201d he said in a normal tone of voice. \u201cI had a valet, but he left.\u201d \u201cI daresay he did, if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9.5\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Lawrence Browne Affair","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/The-Lawrence-Browne-Affair.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":25626,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25626","url_meta":{"origin":2780,"position":1},"title":"The Lawrence Browne Affair","author":"Michelle","date":"January 17, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Lawrence Browne Affair (2017) Cat Sebastian (The Turner Series #2) Set in Cornwall, England in 1816 \u201cFive servants quit,\u201d Halliday said, tapping Lawrence\u2019s desk in emphasis. 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