What A Charming House

Emily Dixon's family is moving because her brother is changing. Jarvis Vaulk feels strangely safe as a storm rages outside his home, while a twice-evicted folk singer will do anything to be left alone. And John Tillman? He's found hidden evils in a house for his clients ...Welcome to What A Charming House, a gothic horror collection about the terrors and desires that haunt us and the places we inhabit.These 24 tales, ranging from horror to satire, confessional to fairy tale, and ballad to fable, together create a singularly dark vision of the home ownership dream. Because along with the vengeful ghosts and sentient abodes, are the everyday evils of greed, intolerance, and what happens when people are taken to the extremes of their beliefs. Inspired by writers such as Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Bowen, and Angela Carter - as well as folklore, religion, ballads, and family lore - these tales of creeping ambiguity are, by turn, psychologically unsettling, darkly comic, and deeply human ... In this book, home is not always home sweet home. Sometimes things are left behind, the neighbors may be suspicious, and the mortgage always comes due. Yet, even in the grimmest hours, there are moments of grace. So, welcome in, wipe your feet on the doormat, please, and enter What A Charming House - stories about what it is to have a house.Or for a house to have you.