A Stir of Echoes

This review will be for a book I borrowed from the library. I saw the film first, I like some things about the film and there are some things I don't like about the film as well.
If you like mystery/horror books and films then you might like the book or the film.
A man named Tom Wallace attends a friendly party, his friends and brother are also there.
Everyone is talking about spiritual things and if thry believe in it or not, until Tom's brother mentions hypnosis and people that have stabbed themselves withblunt objects but didn't feel any pain while hypnotised. None of Tom's friends believe him, but he then decides tl ask people at the party if he can hypnotise them but most of them refuse, until Tom decides to agree to being hynotised.
Tom is very suseptible to hynosis, so it works very well, it works too well and unleashes a psychic awareness he never knew he had before. Afterwards he develops a psychic awareness sometimes called ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) clairvoyance or mediumship skills because he experiences various types of paranormal phenomena it fits into many catergories.
Tom has vivid dreams, can read people's thoughts and desires in their minds, he starts seeing a female ghost or spirit that may or may not have been murdered when they were alive, he has visions and experiences precognition (the knowledge of an event usually something terrible that will happen before it happens) Tom starts to think that his brother did something to him on purpose, while he was hypnotised to make him feel, see and experience this unexplicable paranormal phenomena, he questions his sanity and if he is going insane. Nothing is fully understandable or clear until he talks to him friend who is a psychiatrist but they have knowledge of fringe science (the study of psychic and paranormal phenomena) he clarifies all the things Tom has witnessed or experienced and explain to him that it is not mental illness, but he didn't really have an explanation for the paranormal activity other than telepathy and psychic phenomena.
The rest of the book is about Tome trying to communicate with spirits to gain answers, to try and prevent horrible things happening but sometimes he is too late and there is nothing he can do.
Tom discovers that his neighbour that is married had an affair with his wife's sister, but she found out and murdered her which then led to the discovery of her decomposing corpse in a crawlspace under Tom's house. The wife of the neighbour that had an affair, then decides to try and kill Tom, his wife and son. The plot for the film, has a particular disgusting and disturbing twist, but the disturbing imagery still remains in the book, which I am glad it is in the book, it helps to create a creepy atmosphere.