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. Here’s the publisher’s description, emphasis mine: If you decide to turn back now, though, I won’t haunt and terrorize you like what happens to the main characters in this story. Today, however, we’re taking an advance look at Hendrix’s upcoming novel How to Sell a Haunted House, which releases on January 17, 2023. We’ll see if Prime Video did the source material justice with their film adaptation of My Best Friend’s Exorcism.

There’s nothing like discovering that a character being tortured by a demon lives within 100 yards of your home address. He also happens to have grown up where I currently live, which causes his work to affect me even more - sometimes to an uncomfortable degree.

Since then, nearly every book of his that I’ve read has been an impossible mix of poignant, hilarious, and terrifying. I’ve been a huge fan of Grady Hendrix ever since discovering his 2016 novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism. For the month of October we’ll be sharing various pieces of underappreciated scary books, comics, movies, and television to help keep you terrified and entertained all the way up to Halloween. Welcome to another installment of 31 Days of Halloween! This is our chance to set the mood for the spookiest and scariest month of the year as we focus our attention on horror and Halloween fun.

How to sell a haunted house review