How to Sell a Haunted House
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times
"Ingenious."-The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).
"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times
"Ingenious."-The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
Like his novels The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifying—a gripping new read from “the horror master” (USA Today).
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Excellent read defining how houses aren't haunted, what's haunted are the objects & secrets we drag inside.
A house always gets blamed by families when they are instead being haunted by their own stories, the ones they tell and the ones they hide, memories that become curses and traumas that entangle them together.
It's a story on grief and deciding whether to throw away your loved one's stuff after they've passed on which leaves us with less from those we love.
Even as adults, knowing when to let go doesn't always make it easier on us but if we don't, wouldn't we be at risk for turning our childhood fears into our lifetime companions?
This was hands down the worst book I have ever attempted to read. After suffering through a little over half of the book (and only because it was for my book club), I decided not to torture myself any further. This was the first book I’ve ever had to quit before finishing.
If you ever find yourself trapped in a room with your enemy, just read them the chapters from Mark retelling what he did at BU and the never ending antiwar rants with demonic puppets/masks, and watch them beg for mercy for you to make it stop. I feel like that part alone killed a number of brain cells. I regret the money I spent on this book as well as the hours spent reading that I will never get back.
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