dozens rated The funhouse: 4 stars
The funhouse by Dean Koontz
Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new …
Read this one around 6th grade, and read it twice in a row. It is a great, fanciful tale about growing up. This was the first Clive Barker I read and I have continued, more than ten years later, to be impressed with his imagination and vision.
And the house itself, in this story, is featured prominently almost as a character unto itself.