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Calling all spooky readers! Horror Author C. J. Dotson (The Cut) returns to Gibson's Bookstore with These Familiar Walls! She will be joined in conversation by fellow Horror Author Sam Rebelein (Galloway's Gospel). https://gibsonsbookstore.com/event/these-familiar-walls
About the Book
A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward.
In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood—a boy with dead eyes, a fascination with fire, and no remorse. Their turbulent relationship is brief but creates lasting consequences.
Twenty-two years later, in 2020, he resurfaces to K*ll Amber’s parents, and is in turn betrayed by his accomplice and killed in Amber's childhood home.
After the deaths, Amber inherits the house and, in an effort to save money, moves in with her husband and two children, hoping to reclaim some sense of stability in the grief and chaos surrounding her. Instead, she finds that the familiar walls are haunted by more than just bitter memories and lockdown stress. She shifts in and out of dreamlike trances, her reflection won’t meet her gaze, and a menacing voice whispers to her from the gathering shadows. Although she tried to brush off the strange happenings as stress-fueled hallucinations, Amber is soon forced to admit that something much more real—and more dangerous—haunts her family. But Amber has deadly secrets of her own, and she must resolve these long-buried truths or lose the life she’s contrived for herself.
About the Authors
C. J. Dotson possesses the statistically average number of body parts for a human being to have. She and her husband, stepson, and children (all of whom also appear human) share a cabin in the woods with more bugs than she would ever like to see. In her limited spare time she enjoys reading, video games, painting, baking and decorating cakes (with…questionable success), and petting her dog and two cats.
Sam Rebelein writes and teaches in Poughkeepsie, NY. His short fiction has appeared in PseudoPod, The Deadlands, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's prestigious Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. His first three books (THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS, GALLOWAY'S GOSPEL, and the Bram Stoker award-nominated novel EDENVILLE) are all set in upstate New York, in fictional Renfield County. For more about Sam's work, and pictures of his scruffy pooch Frodo, follow him on Instagram @rebelsam94.
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