She doesn’t think she is ready to cope with the loss of her two parents, who are the two people in the world that loved her the most. At the same time, she knows that she must deal with her parent’s death. The thought of dealing with her family home, which filled to the brim with her parent’s possessions, is overwhelming. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter and doesn’t want to travel back to Charleston. After she learns of her parents’ tragic death, Louise is hesitant to return to her hometown. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.īefore the death of her parents, Louise is living a seemingly nice and tranquil life. 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).These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. 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.īut some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them… 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. 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.

He is the author of Horrorsto?r, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World. Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. SPACE – ARTS, ARTISTS, & IDEAS IN PORTLAND, MAINE Join Grady Hendrix to discuss “How to Sell a Haunted House.”

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