A song Louise hasn’t heard in years suddenly begins playing in her head: “ Pupkin here! Pupkin here! Everybody laugh! Everybody cheer!” While this coterie of babies is unnerving enough, the real horror begins when Louise finds Nancy’s favorite puppet, Pupkin, sitting in an easy chair in front of the TV watching the Home Shopping Network. The house, permeated by a weird vibe, feels “off,” especially the living room, which is packed with hundreds of her mom Nancy’s creepy dolls - clown dolls, German dolls, life-size dolls “a swarm of dolls stared through the glass doors of the doll cabinet.” When her parents die unexpectedly, Louise - a single mother living in San Francisco who has spent her adult life fleeing a family that “functions on secrets” - returns to Charleston for the funeral, where she has agreed to help her deadbeat brother Mark sell their childhood home.īut when she arrives, something seems very wrong. He’s explored vampires and exorcisms, the trauma of surviving a serial killer, recombinant demons and now, in perhaps his greatest creation, a haunted puppet named Pupkin. Grady Hendrix’s horror novels are a gateway drug to the genre, bridging the warm and cozy - book clubs, female support groups, undying friendships, sibling rivalries and lots of home cooking - with the harder stuff. 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.HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE, by Grady Hendrix
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. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
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 leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix – Free eBooks Download
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