Some houses keep their secrets. This one keeps its dead.The dark, atmospheric Southern gothic ghost story longlisted for Goodreads Horror Book of the Year 2024A sinister and beautifully rendered Southern Gothic, This Cursed House explores the reallife horrors of racism and trauma. Del Sandeens stunning debut haunted me Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the WitchingLouisiana, 1962.The Duchon estate looms over New Orleans, a crumbling relic of Southern charm. Its walls decaying under the weight of its longburied secrets.At its door stands Jemma Barker, fleeing the frozen streets of Chicago and a past she wont talk about. But Jemma wasnt invited. She was summoned.Inside await the lightskinned Duchons, bound by a family curse. They believe Jemma is the one who will save them. Never mind her darker skin, a shade theyve always scorned.But their curse isnt just supernatural. Its woven into generations of silence, superiority, and shame.As the house stirs and Jemmas past creeps in, she must decide will she be the Duchons salvation, or risk losing herself to their darkness?Praise for This Cursed HouseAn absolute marvel of a debut from a prodigious talent. A richly atmospheric, utterly chilling ghost story, an enthralling puzzle box of family scandals and secrets thats also an unflinching examination of the insidiousness of racism, the horrors of colorism Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep and Such Sharp TeethAn enthralling, twisty Southern Gothic...
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Some houses keep their secrets. This one keeps its dead.The dark, atmospheric Southern gothic ghost story longlisted for Goodreads Horror Book of the Year 2024A sinister and beautifully rendered Southern Gothic, This Cursed House explores the reallife horrors of racism and trauma. Del Sandeens stunning debut haunted me Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the WitchingLouisiana, 1962.The Duchon estate looms over New Orleans, a crumbling relic of Southern charm. Its walls decaying under the weight of its longburied secrets.At its door stands Jemma Barker, fleeing the frozen streets of Chicago and a past she wont talk about. But Jemma wasnt invited. She was summoned.Inside await the lightskinned Duchons, bound by a family curse. They believe Jemma is the one who will save them. Never mind her darker skin, a shade theyve always scorned.But their curse isnt just supernatural. Its woven into generations of silence, superiority, and shame.As the house stirs and Jemmas past creeps in, she must decide will she be the Duchons salvation, or risk losing herself to their darkness?Praise for This Cursed HouseAn absolute marvel of a debut from a prodigious talent. A richly atmospheric, utterly chilling ghost story, an enthralling puzzle box of family scandals and secrets thats also an unflinching examination of the insidiousness of racism, the horrors of colorism Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep and Such Sharp TeethAn enthralling, twisty Southern Gothic...
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