![]() ![]() But terrible things keep happening, including Harry’s untimely death, Margaret’s bottomless grief, the sudden disappearance of Noah’s oldest sister, Sydney, and his sister Eunice’s crippling mental illness, not to mention the increasingly frequent disappearances of children from Vandergriff. He opens with the sweet romance between his parents, Harry and Margaret, who marry and start a comic book store and a haunted house called The Wandering Dark in the small town of Vandergriff, Texas. ![]() The story is told by Noah Turner, who matter-of-factly recounts the dark and terrible fortunes of his family. That said, this is a very scary coming-of-age tale that lives in the same space as Stranger Things, Stand By Me, and Stephen King’s It (1986). Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, so it may not be the easiest horror novel to parse or explain. This ambitious, grotesque debut novel is a love letter to H.P. A Texas family that runs a haunted house is haunted by monsters for decades. ![]()
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