The House Where Death Lives

An Anthology

By: Alex Brown, Justine Pucella, Sandra Proudman, C.L. McCollum, Tori Bovalino, G. Haron Davis, Nova Ren Suma, Gina Chen, Traci Chee, Linsey Miller, Rosiee Thor, Courtney Gould, Kay Costales, Liz Hull, Shelly Page

Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino, Stacy Gonzalez, Jeed Saddy, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Mirai

The house beckons you inside. Do you enter?

A dance to the death. A monstrous girl who lures people into dark water. A hallway that’s constantly changing—and hungry. All these stories exist within a house unbound from the laws of time and space.

From the attic, to the library, to the grounds, each chilling story in this anthology focuses on a different area of the haunted house and features unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it’s a trickster djinn, a water-loving rusalka, or a horrifying, baby-imitating tiyanak, there’s always something sinister lurking in the shadows.

Edited by Alex Brown and featuring stories from New York Times best-selling and award-winning authors: 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.

©2024 Alex Brown (P)2024 Recorded Books

Junior camp ghost stories

This contained 16 short stories, each 26-50 minutes long, with a girl MC, and set in or around a house. Although one or two shorts had mild language, liberal references about the environment or LGBTQ issues, and closed door references to teen sex, the overall tone was lighter than Goosebumps.

Ultimately, these weren’t very scary or captivating. They weren’t horrible, but I found them rather dull. I had the vague feeling this came out of a college writing class.