How to Sell a Haunted House is an entertaining read that morphs into something new a few times. Mark and Louise will be much richer if they manage to sell the house but the house, just like them, is full of dark secrets that must come to the light if they hope to ever get rid of it. There are sounds in the attic, which their parents had boarded up, and the puppets and creepy dolls seem to have a mind of their own. There is something in the house, a strange presence that turns off the realtor trying to help them. After a few altercations, Mark agrees to give Louise a percentage of the money if she sticks around and helps him sell, but that is easier said than done despite a favorable market. And in Louise's, and her brother Mark's, case, the biggest things is her parents' house, which is full of her mother's folk art and a big collection of dolls and homemade puppets.ĭespite being adults, Louise and Mark immediately start fighting again and, even worse, he inherits everything except their mother's art, which goes to Louise - seemingly confirming what she has always thought about her brother being the favorite. In the aftermath of death, those left behind must deal with a lot of practical things on top of the emotional turmoil. She has no plans to go back home, but when she learns her parents have died in an accident, she must put everything aside, leave her daughter with her ex, and travel home. Now she's an adult, has her own daughter, and rarely talks to her estranged brother, who still lives back in Charleston.

Growing up, Louise wanted to move far from home because her mother was hard to deal with, and she felt like her brother was her parents' favorite and got everything handed to him while she had to work for things. His latest, How to Sell a Haunted House, fully embraces all the elements readers have come to love about what he does.Ĭampy, unexpectedly deep - and as creepy as the dead eyes of a puppet at midnight in a gloomy room - How to Sell a Haunted House is a tense, dark novel that looks at family trauma and a life-long sibling rivalry while also delivering a heaping serving of demonic puppets, violence, and even undead squirrels.

Grady Hendrix's work occupies a unique interstitial space between emotional storytelling, unnerving, gory horror, and a dash of comedy.

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