Creepers by David Morrell

I was recently informed of this book and although it was released five years ago, it is certainly worth reading!

Book Description
On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.

The five people are “creepers,” the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times article.

Frank Balenger, a sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn’t looking for just a story, however. And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. Danger, terror, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.

My thoughts
I wanted to read this book because I always wanted to creep, although I knew it as urban exploring. I was too chicken and after reading this book, I am even more scared. This novel is a suspenseful thriller that follows fiver urban explorers as they penetrate an old hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey a week before it is scheduled to be torn down. What they find is a trip back in time as some of the rooms seem to have not been touched in decades yet they also seem that the guests were still there. Each room was a time capsule in itself. With the dangers of a old building and rotting wood, the explorers are as careful as they could be, but then a set of stairs collapse, one of them is injured and then they here the noise that someone else is there. I could go on but that will just ruin it. This fast paced story will keep you in glued to you seat as you try to figure what the heck is going on.

Disclosure: I borrowed this book from my local library.