- Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Gothic
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parents' messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house. After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, a sinister presence in the house manifests, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Rachel Harrison
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Berkley
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593642573
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Rachel Harrison is the author of The Return, nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica and Electric Lit. She lives in New York with her husband and their cat/overlord. (<a href="https://www.rachel-harrison.com/about">Source</a>)
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