It's really in the traditional ghost story genre, heavy with atmosphere, though the hero is atypical (Vietnam vet) and the story is definitely in a male voice. The burnt-out vet (likeable, and you do identify with him) travels up to back-country Maine in mid-winter to live in the cabin he has inherited from his war buddy, "Maynard." It turns out to be a very strange place. Extremely isolated, at first it seems he only has to worry about physical survival. The haunting or supernatural part is subtle and complex - I still haven't figured it all out, but it has to do not only with Marnard and the house but what happened hundreds of years before. Well written! There is a sequence with a hat, blown by the wind, that follows the hero home, scaring him very badly. That sort of thing is hard to write credibly - the author does just fine, I was definitely spooked. The ending is nightmarish. The sense of atmosphere is thick and prevailing, this is one of those books that is more a "place" than a story.
