.awalrusdarkly reviews grady_hendrix's HowToSellAHauntedHouse, a story that grounds its horror in very real, very nerve-wrenching interpersonal drama.
The home of a person who’s recently died is, for their left-behind loved ones, a bizarre excavation site. The process of inheriting, cataloging, and even disposing of the property of someone who was only just recently living with all of those things is gut-wrenching, and often deeply spooky. There’s a reason inheritance often has a role to play in haunted house narratives: When it comes to a death in the family, even the least supernatural places on Earth feel haunted for a little while.
Louise and Mark are siblings who don’t get along, and that tension carries through to the sudden and tragic death of their parents. Louise, the sibling who went out into the world and built a life on the other side of the country, returns home to find Mark—the sibling who stayed close to home and stumbled through a series of personal and professional ventures which never seemed to play out—already trying to take charge of funeral arrangements, estate management, and pretty much everything else.
As Louise asserts her power and her own wishes for her parents’ legacy, it’s clear right away that Mark is going to make life difficult for her while she’s back home, but that’s not the only obstacle lurking in the house. Something else happened in the home where Louise and Mark grew up, something that might be tied to why their parents died, something with secrets that have roots deep in the family’s long-buried history.
As is so often the case with Hendrix’s work, all of this carries certain familiar subgenre trappings, from a sudden death in the family as the catalyst to a house full of creepy dolls to set the mood for what’s to come. Those trappings exist to remind you what kind of story you’re reading, and to create a certain atmosphere, but they’re also there so Hendrix can carefully, delicately, and thrillingly reinvent them to his own ends.
And yes, the terror does come later, in powerful, unforgettable waves of violence, supernatural phenomena, and often heartbreaking truths about what’s really going on in the family home now that Mark and Louise’s parents are gone. Hendrix has made a career out of exploring and dissecting classic horror tropes while still delivering all the scary goods associated with said tropes, and things are no different here.
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