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Did you perhaps leave it sitting right in front of your dresser in a position that would leave it looking straight at you as you walked in?įrom the moment Louise turns off the tv only for it to turn back on, I was hooked. Imagine, a puppet/doll sitting atop your shelf as you go to sleep and once you wake up the first thing you see is it looking at you. The dead eyes that stare into your soul or at nothingness, the ever-present grin, the perceived notion that they might track your every move and watch you as you sleep. Goosebumps’ Night of the Living Dummy, Dead Silence, Annabelle, hell even Chucky are all iconic pieces of media because puppets/dolls can be very creepy.

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Louise might not find living in a house full of dolls and puppets strange, as she’s grown up with her mother going to a Christian puppet ministry and basing her life around them, but she does find it strange that on the night her parents died in a car crash there was a hammer on the counter, her mother’s purse at home, the puppet version of herself and her brother sat watching tv and the attic door was hammered shut with any scrap piece of wood. “Strange noises, bad vibes, your mom and dad recently passed-Your house is haunted and I’m not selling it until you deal with that.”įrom the moment Louise gets home things are wrong. Yet, it starts building this sense of wrongness. It’s even more sudden for Louise as her parents have been dead for days and her brother forgot to call her until the moment when he’s already made decisions and the move to have their parents cremated. Laying the layers and foundations in a home, the coming and estrangements within the family, the avoidance of death, the birth of a new family member, until the sudden death of Louise’s parents.

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With How to Sell a Haunted House (HTSAHH), it started out slow.

I still think about My Best Friend’s Exorcism because of how amazing it captured that 80s teen exorcism vibe. Did Hendrix do me wrong with The Final Girl Support Group? Yes, but I was willing to give him another chance since this was paranormal, and he can do paranormal. I mean what else did I need? I knew it was a haunted house of sorts, I knew they were trying to sell said haunted house, and it’s Grady Hendrix so it was bound to be creepy. It sold me the book based on that title alone. How to Sell a Haunted House is one hell of a title. “A puppet is a possession that possesses the possessor.” As disturbing events stack up in the house, Louise and Mark have to learn that sometimes the only way to break away from the past, sometimes the only way to sell a haunted house, is to burn it all down. It can also trap us, and bind us, and suffocate the life out of us. The past can ground us, teach us, and keep us safe. Sometimes we feel like our parents treat us like toys, or playthings, or even dolls.

Sometimes we feel like puppets, controlled by our upbringing and our genes. Yet before her parents died they taped newspaper over the mirrors and nailed shut the attic door. They need to get it on the market as soon as possible because they need the money. The virus has passed, and both of them are facing bank accounts ravaged by the economic meltdown. Now, however, they don’t have a choice but to get along. The two siblings are almost totally estranged, and couldn’t be more different. When their parents die at the tail end of the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare them for how bad things are about to get. Your past and your family can haunt you like nothing else… A hilarious and terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group.Įvery childhood home is haunted, and each of us are possessed by our parents. A Fox News spokesperson told CNN that Watters didn’t remember the comment, and claimed that the interview “was well received with executives thanking him profusely afterward.Point of View: Third Person + 1 First Person Chapter (Louise + Mark (1 CH)) “The association acted quickly and decisively following the incident, and the interview session conducted at our event does not reflect the culture and values of the Big I,” Costello said in a statement. John Costello, the chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, spoke out against Watters’ comment, which he had made during an interview with the association’s retiring president, Bob Rusbuldt. One person described what followed as “an epic meltdown,” according to the network. The comment-apparently made humorously-didn’t go over well with some executives in attendance, a number of whom walked out, according to people familiar with what happened. hour as Tucker Carlson’s replacement beginning next month, made an offensive joke questioning the gender of Vice President Kamala Harris at an insurance conference in April, CNN reported Thursday. Fox News host Jesse Watters, who is set to helm the network’s 8 p.m.