An abandoned lighthouse with a gory history attracts a group of ghost hunters in Widow's Point by father-son writing team Richard and W.H. Chizmar. The locals of Harper's Cove, Nova Scotia, consider the Widow's Point lighthouse, built in 1838, to be haunted and cursed. It has been locked up tight since 1988, after decades of bizarre incidents and deaths within and around the premises. But in 2017, author Thomas Livingston gains access for a three-day stay to investigate rumors of its haunting--only to never be seen again, his camera and audio recordings the only chilling remnant of his experience.
In October 2025 a ghost-hunting team arrives to stay for a week within the cold, creaking confines. Joining them is Harper's Cove native and professor Catherine Durand, an author specializing in haunted places, who returns after 33 years to confront the one haunt she has avoided her entire life. The experiment devolves quickly from a spooky lark to a hypnotic descent into horrifying chaos as the lighthouse begins to wake up. The events are revealed through a combination of handheld and stationary camera footage, sound recordings, and Durand's written journal, providing multiple eerie points of view from characters, stairways, and living quarters. These slick narrative devices crank up the freak factor as readers get a 360-degree panorama of nightmarish images. Widow's Point is the ultimate written found footage story that taps into contemporary cinematic and social media trends for peak sinister impact. --Peggy Kurkowski, book reviewer in Denver