The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean

I'm not sure where I first heard about this book, but it piqued my interest, and when the library obligingly got a copy, I was excited to check it out.
The Apparition Phase is a good, old-fashioned ghost story. Literally. It read like a direct inheritor of M.R. James and authors of that era, only less dense and soporific. In fact, it kept me up and entertained me for all of its considerable bulk. And if it didn't quite dazzle me ...well, it's partly because I'm a tough critic and partly because the good, old-fashioned stories like that seldom do. They are simply too sedate and muted by definition for a "dazzle."
Be that as it may, this was a very enjoyable and clever read. The butter-soft prose flowed beautifully, and there were some genuinely well rendered scenes of supernatural unease. 

As the title suggests, this is a ghost story. A good one. In the beginning, you meet a set of morbid twins and then follow one of them through a few years of being variously haunted. 
To maintain the "classic feel," the book eschews modernity and takes place in the early seventies. In England, where all the polite hauntings are.
This is one of those books that is written for adults but features teenage protagonists. I stay away from YA and firmly believe that all adults should, but this novel is done with enough skill to avoid that "stories for unformed brains" territory. 
The pacing is a bit leisurely at times, and the penultimate scene is quite drawn out, but it all still works.
And in the end, there's such a pitch-perfect melancholic epilogue that it wraps up the entire novel, its mood and tone, just so. 
All in all, a worthy read for genre fans who likes their scares subtle and literary. An elegiac, elegant, eloquent tale of being haunted. Recommended.