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Title: The People in the Attic: The Haunting of Doretta Johnson by Doretta Johnson, Jim Henderson ISBN: 0-312-13583-1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: This is a bunch of nonsense!
Comment: This book is hard to put down, but for all the wrong reasons.From begining to end it is a colossal bunch of nonsense.
Simply because it is so outrageous you end up reading it for hours. The premise of the story is that in 1987 Doretta Johnson, her husband and family consisting of her son from her first marriage, and her infant daughter from her current one, moved into a house in Madison, Indiana. According to her, they soon had much trouble with the house and begun to suspect it might be haunted. Doretta had been a child abuse victim and supposedly this helped her ''psychic'' abilities along. The family consulted the Catholic Church and a psychic to try to help them but nothing really seemed to work. Eventually, they did find someone to help them. This caused them to go public about the problems with their house and Doretta's ''psychic'' talents.
However, finding help and going public did not prevent Doretta and her husband's marriage falling apart nor did it prevent fears on her part that the haunting might get worse again.This book is very confusing and that is the most sense I can make of the story. Besides being confusing, you end up being in doubt whether their problems with the house were caused more by her ''psychic'' abilities or the haunting. The stories regarding the haunting are overkill. They also suggest that the author spent too much time watching horror movies. Her traumatic childhood must really have effected her or she has a vivid imagination. Possibly, it's both. Her son's car crash caused by a unknown force??? Yeah, right. The only sensible thing she did in the whole course of the book was to get rid of the psychic.
It is remotely possible that her house was actually haunted if you believe in such things. However, details about the ''ghosts'' haunting it are vague and confusing. At the end of this book the only thing you can say is that the author is very self perceptive. After all, she is the one who wrote ''You're going insane, D.J., Absolutely, freaking flat-out insane.'' I can only agree.

Rating: 5
Summary: Jim Henderson-fantastic writer-mind boggling
Comment: This book held my attention from the first word,until I finally reached the last word.It was too scarry to read at night and sometimes I was terrified in broad daylight.Henderson brought Johnsons true story to life in his great, magnificent style. He should write more books!!Bravo! Bravo~~

Rating: 5
Summary: Very enlightening - yet terrifying!
Comment: The haunting of Doretta Johnson is one of the most fear inciting stories I have ever read. I find myself pondering the family's situation, wondering 'what if.' I came to a point while I was reading this description of Doretta's experiences where I refused to read the book if I was alone. That's not the norm around here. I have been out on paranormal investigations, and yet I could not read that book alone. I highly recommend this book - to anyone interested in the paranormal.