The September House

By Carissa Orlando,

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“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."–…

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1 author picked The September House as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I have lived in many haunted places, one of them a 1906 Victorian, which I painstakingly restored, so I couldn’t resist acquiring this novel for my collection. Orlando’s gripping style pulled me into the horror and love of living in places that are sometimes scary. Add to this the family mystery, and voila: MAGIC.

It brought me back to the days of straddling the explainable and otherworldly, particularly when my girls were reluctant to go to bed because they were too tired to play with the little girl in the closet. I literally could not stop reading this one. And…

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