When their parents die in the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare them for how bad things are about to get. The two siblings are almost totally estranged:. now, however, they don't have a choice but to get along. They need to get their childhood home on the market as soon as possible, but before their parents died, they taped newspaper over the mirrors and nailed shut the attic door. As disturbing events stack up in the house, Louise and Mark have to learn that sometimes the only way to break away from the past, sometimes the only way to sell a haunted house, is to burn it all down.
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix's novels include Horrorstör, My
Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and The Southern Book Club's Guide to
Slaying Vampires. He's also the author of Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the
horror paperback boom of the Seventies and Eighties, which won the Bram Stoker
Award for "Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction?; he's also been nominated for the
Shirley Jackson Award and the Locus Award. Grady tweets @grady_hendrix