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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4.1
295 reviews
A Google user
June 19, 2012
I loved the story. I felt like the author enhanced the areas of history that were the most important such as the depths that the family went through to obtain the home, the friends and family members that were significant to the family during the time that the family lived in the home, the fear and horrifiying experiences that the home put them through, etc. The story is a step by step narrative and I have read it and re-read it many times. It is a compellig story. I believe every words having had similiar experiences myself. I am looking forward to the movie and I hope that the move does justice to the Arnold Estate and to Bathsheba herself. This book is a must read for anyone that wishes to understand interdimensions and how even though we are in the flesh - we are still spiritual beings. This story is the story that made the Warren Family as famous as they are now, When you read it please have an open mind. I find it remarkable that Andrea remembered so much about the past and described these memories so eloquently. I will always love this book. This is a must read!
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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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Haley Martin
February 26, 2018
Honestly I was mkre interested in learning about the history of the house, but not much of the history was here, a little, but I would have liked to know more about it, if Carolyn had indeed gone and spent so much time in researching she could have given more details, and andrea could have done more research if needed, way too much time spent on trying to use bigger more "intelligent" words, when it could have been kept more similar, more focused on topics and more details on the house and property itself, more history of the "spirits" in it, including Bathsheba instead of focusing on babbling about stuff there should have been a little more focus and research. Every chapter bounced around and I found it hard to keep up with what point in time was pressed and what event was being received, and again left with questions because it lacked details and focus. Kind of cool because of the pictures, but should have included a lot more pictures, maybe more with the floor plan of the house and barn, maybe pictures of the property from above showing the property layout, and maybe ones showing older layouts and the older county division.
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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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