There’s a new frightening anthology coming your way, and I have a short story in it: The House Where Death Lives is a unique collection of stories all set in a horror-filled room of a house, and the ferocious cover has just been revealed!
The House Where Death Lives (once called This House Is Haunted but since retitled) now has a cover! My short story “The Grey Library” is just one of the stories included in this unsettling collection of horror edited by Alex Brown and forthcoming from Page Street YA on August 6, 2024. Cover design by Laura Benton, and cover illustration by Rachel Jablonski.
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Want to know what it’s about?
New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors weave haunted house stories to build a unique collection of chilling tales, with stories from Alex Brown, Nova Ren Suma, Gina Chen, Traci Chee, Linsey Miller, Rosiee Thor, Courtney Gould, Kay Costales, Liz Hull, Shelly Page, Justine Pucella Winans, Sandra Proudman, C.L. McCollum, Nora Elghazzawi, Tori Bovalino, and G. Haron Davis.
A dance to the death. A girl who’s just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that’s constantly changing–and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place–within the frame of a particular house that isn’t bound by the laws of time and space.
Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His Hideous Heart and Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, and Netflix’s ground-breaking adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, this YA speculative fiction anthology explores how the permanence of a home can become a space of transition and change for both the inhabitants and the creatures who haunt them.
Each story in the anthology will focus on a different room in the house and feature unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it’s a demonic Trickster, a water-loving Rusalka, or a horrifying, baby-imitating Tiyanak, there’s bound to be something sinister lurking in the shadows.
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In my story, “The Grey Library,” the most coveted babysitter in the neighborhood is compelled to spend the night watching a strange new client at the house behind the iron gate. It’s only a baby, she tells herself, but all signs point to something more sinister. And it’s set in a room I’ve always wanted in my own house… a library.
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