Category:
Horror,
ThrillerLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
dolls PuppetsWritten by Grady Hendrix
Read by Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
Format: MP3
Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: January 17, 2023
Duration: 13:06:55
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. 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 learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
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. 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.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
“Narrator Mikhaila Aaseng gives a chilling performance in this haunted house horror story. Louise reluctantly returns to her family home after her parents die. She finds that her mother’s obsession with puppets and dolls has filled the house. —–. Louise is voiced with the crisp logic of a woman who is used to discounting the implausible. Aaseng’s masterful pacing perfectly ramps up the tension, immersing listeners in Louise’s rising panic. Jay Aaseng casually narrates a brief segment from the brother’s point of view, revealing horrifying truths about their mother’s favorite puppet. —- Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award