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The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories
by Joan Aiken
Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you’d checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark. Here are tales of suspense and the supernatural that will chill, amuse, and exhilarate. Best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (1924–2004) wrote over a hundred books and won the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards.
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The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
by Kevin Brockmeier
The award-winning author of The Brief History of the Dead presents a treasury of 100 funny, scary and thought-provoking ghost stories, including the tale of a man haunted by the trees that were cut down to build his house.
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Widow's Point
by Richard T Chizmar
An acclaimed author of supernatural stories agrees to shutter himself in the Widow's Point Lighthouse, a supposedly cursed, haunted building that hasn't been inhabited in years, but once he steps inside for the night, he realizes that he is not alone.
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The House by the Cemetery
by John Everson
Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. But rumors won't stop carpenter Mike Kostner from rehabbing the place as a haunted house attraction. Soon he'll learn that fresh wood and nails can't keep decades of rumors down. There are noises in the walls, and fresh blood on the floor: secrets that would be better not to discover. And behind the rumors is a real ghost who will do whatever it takes to ensure the house reopens.
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Ghost Stories
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A chilling compendium of classic ghost stories features such works as "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James's "The Friends of the Friends," and P. G. Wodehouse's "Honeysuckle Cottage," as well as tales by Elizabeth Bowen, Jorge Luis Borges, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Edith Wharton, Vladimir Nabokov, and other notable authors.
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The Black Phone: Stories
by Joe Hill
A compilation of short fiction includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown
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Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, from a cannibal cookbook to a used hangman's noose, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather.
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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
The winner of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and International Horror Guild Awards, a compilation of imaginative, surreal, and macabre short fiction by the author of Heart-Shaped Box includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown.
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The Library of the Dead
by T. L. Huchu
Speaking to Edinburgh’s dead, carrying messages to those they left behind, Ropa, when she discovers that someone’s bewitching children, feels honor-bound to investigate until what she finds in the underground below the city rocks her world.
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
Dr. Montague, an occult scholar, and his team--Theodora, his assistant; Eleanor, a fragile young woman with a close acquaintance with the paranormal; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House--conduct an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
The classic ghost story about a high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint.
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The Siren and the Specter
by Jonathan Janz
Skeptic David Caine is invited by an old friend to spend a month in Alexander House, considered to be the most haunted house in Virginia, a stay that soon has him questioning his stance.
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Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.
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The Shining
by Stephen King
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. Followed by Doctor Sleep.
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Floating Staircase
by Ronald Damien Malfi
To Travis and Jodie Glasgow, the house in the idyllic small town seems perfect, the surrounding woods and lake like a postcard. But soon after they move in, things begin to change. Strange noises wake Travis at night. His dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through the darkened hallways--shapes bearing a frightening resemblance to a little boy. Footprints appear. Strangest of all are the wooden stairs rising cryptically from the lake. The more Travis investigates, the more he uncovers the house's violent and tragic past and the more he learns that some secrets can't be buried forever.
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Hell House
by Richard Matheson
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
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The Bones of You
by Gary McMahon
Adam Morris moves into a cheap rental property in the suburbs. He's divorced and now only sees his daughter, Jessica, every other weekend. He's a broken man trying to start a new life. When strange events start to occur in the run-up to Halloween, Adam suspects there's a link to the old, abandoned house next door. Soon he learns about a dead killer named Katherine Moffat and the terrible things she did to her victims in the cellar. As Adam uncovers more details regarding past events in the house next door, he realizes that he and Jessica might be in real danger. Before long, he is caught up in a mortal struggle to prevent the lingering influence of 'Little Miss Moffat' from destroying everything he has tried so hard to protect. This is a story about ghosts, a dead serial killer, and a man struggling to be a good father to his young daughter.
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The Winter People
by Jennifer McMahon
Coming of age in an old farmhouse, 19-year-old Ruthie begins a search for her agoraphobic mother and discovers the century-old diary of the farmhouse's long-ago resident, a grieving mother who died under mysterious circumstances. By the best-selling author of Island of Lost Girls.
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Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories
by Audrey Niffenegger
Chosen and introduced by the best-selling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, a collection of the best ghost stories of all time includes work from Edgar Allen Poe, Kelly Link, M.R. James and Neil Gaiman.
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Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
by Audrey Niffenegger
After they inherit a London flat near Highgate Cemetery from their aunt Elspeth Noblin, two American twin teenagers, Julia and Valentina, move in and get to know their quirky neighbors, but they soon discover that much is still alive at Highgate, including, perhaps, their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment or life behind. By the best-selling author of The Time Traveler's Wife.
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Rooms: A Novel
by Lauren Oliver
After Richard Walker dies, leaving behind a vast country estate, his estranged family arrives for their inheritance, while long-dead former residents bound to the house observe the family and reminisce about their past lives--until both the human and spirit worlds collide.
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Doomed
by Chuck Palahniuk
A follow-up to the best-selling Damned continues the afterlife adventures of snarky Madison Spencer, who wanders Earth as a ghostly spirit in search of her do-gooding celebrity parents while fighting the influence of Satan, encountering her grandfather at a fetid highway rest stop and confronting her destiny on a plastic Pacific continent known as Madlantis.
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The Family Plot
by Cherie Priest
When a potentially lucrative historic property is offered to her father's salvaging company, Dahlia is alarmed when graves are found on the property and the estate's owner goes missing just as a series of bizarre events reveal that the crew is being targeted by hostile forces.
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The Demonologist
by Andrew Pyper
Winning acclaim for his expertise in demonic literature including Milton's Paradise Lost, Columbia professor David Ullman travels to Italy and witnesses a startling phenomenon that challenges his skepticism before his 12-year-old daughter is targeted by a demonic enemy that would claim him as a messenger. By the award-winning author of Lost Girls.
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Home Before Dark: A Novel
by Riley Sager
Twenty-five years after her father published a wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family’s rushed exit from a haunted Victorian estate, naysayer Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations, only to make a number of disturbing discoveries.
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I Remember You: A Ghost Story
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Fiction. A tale based on a true story finds three friends targeted by a malevolent presence while trying to renovate an old house in the Icelandic Westfjords, while a local doctor uncovers an elderly suicide victim's obsessions.
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl's captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor's obsession with one of his students.
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Disappearance at Devil's Rock
by Paul Tremblay
When her 14-year-old son disappears without a trace, Elizabeth learns that the boy and his friends had been hanging out near a reputedly cursed landmark, a situation that turns eerie when she discovers his journal pages and neighbors spot his ghostly shadow throughout the town.
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
After being summoned to treat a patient at dilapidated Hundreds Hall, Dr. Faraday finds himself becoming entangled in the lives of the owners, the Ayres family, and the supernatural presences in the house.
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The taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
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Prelude for Lost Souls
by Helene Dunbar
In St. Hilaire, where most residents talk to the dead, Dec, who yearns for a fresh start, Russ, who plans to run his town, and piano prodigy Annie Krylova meet and find their lives transformed. Told from multiple viewpoints.
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The Dead and the Dark
by Courtney Gould
New to Snakebite, Oregon, Logan, the shunned daughter of TV’s ParaSpectors, must figure out who—or what—is haunting the town when teenagers start turning up dead, exposing the dark secrets of those around her.
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13 Days of Midnight
by Leo Hunt
When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies unexpectedly, he leaves his son a collection of eight restless spirits who mutiny when they discover that Luke doesn't know how to manage them, and as Halloween fast approaches, Luke finds himself with only 13 days to send his unquiet spirits to their eternal rest—or join their ghostly ranks himself.
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Haunt Me
by Liz Kessler
Feeling instantly at home in her haunted bedroom after moving in the wake of a rough year, Erin senses an inexplicable connection to the ghost of a teen boy, Joe, before finding herself equally drawn to Joe's once-popular brother, Olly. By the best-selling author of the Emily Windsnap series.
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Wake the Bones
by Elizabeth Kilcoyne
When a devil from her past returns to court her, as he did her mother years earlier, tobacco hand and taxidermist Laurel Early must unravel her mother's terrifying legacy and tap into her own magic to save everyone she loves.
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The Women in the Walls
by Amy Lukavics
While living in her family's Victorian mansion, Lucy and her cousin, Margaret, begin to hear voices coming from the walls of the old house
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The Girls Are Never Gone
by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost
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Rules for Vanishing
by Kate Alice Marshall
Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons. Lucy's game isn't for the faint of heart. If you win, you escape with your life. But if you lose.... Sara's sister disappeared one year ago--and only Sara knows where she is. Becca went to find the ghost of Lucy Gallows and is trapped on the road that leads to her.
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Asylum
by Madeleine Roux
A tale presented in the style of an integrated photo-novel finds intellectual misfit Dan arriving at a summer college prep program for gifted students and being required to sleep in a crumbling former psychiatric hospital, where he and his friends uncover disturbing secrets about the asylum's dark past. By the author of Allison Hewett Is Trapped.
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Where Echoes Lie
by Shannon Schuren
In this eerie thriller of a ghost story, a teenage girl must solve the mystery of the ghost bride that has haunted her community in rural Kentucky for more than a century.
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Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story
by Diane Setterfield
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
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The Haunted
by Danielle Vega
To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.
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Portraits of Celina
by Sue Whiting
After her father's death, sixteen-year-old Bayley and her family move out to the lake, to the house from which sixteen-year-old Celina O'Malley mysteriously disappeared nearly forty years before--but when she finds a trunk of Celina's clothes, her cousin's spirit starts reaching out to Bayley, and it seems that she wants her murder solved, even if her revenge costs Bayley her life.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Despite rumors that the place is haunted, newly orphaned siblings Molly and Kip have little choice but to accept jobs at the run-down Windsor family estate. What they find at the eerie manor house is curious indeed: the family is pale and secretive, mysterious footprints appear in the night, and a giant, menacing tree grows inside the house, granting wishes to the inhabitants…at a terrible price. Filled with well-drawn characters and spooky, shivery thrills, The Night Gardener is "a tale that will keep readers glued to the page" (Booklist). For another story about a sinister tree and a nightmarish villain, pick up M.P. Kozlowsky's Juniper Berry.
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Out of the Wild Night
by Blue Balliett
Mary W. Chase died on Nantucket Island just over one hundred years ago, but she is still there, in the house she once lived in, and she wants to keep it that way-- but first she must somehow contact a group of children who are interested in preserving historic homes on the island.
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Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
by Fleur Bradley
Convincing his overworked mom to accept an all-expenses-paid weekend vacation at the Barclay Hotel, 12-year-old JJ discovers upon arrival that his mother and the other guests are prime suspects in their host’s murder.
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The Ghoul of Windydown Vale
by Jake Burt
Keeping the townspeople of Windydown Vale safe from the surrounding swamps by dressing up as a ghoul, Copper Inskeep finds his secret threatened when a real ghoul emerges and attacks a young girl.
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The Haunted Library
by Dori Hillestad Butler
When his haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, Kaz befriends human Claire, who has the ability to see ghosts, and helps her investigate a haunting at the local library. By the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery-winning author of The Buddy Files.
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Girl in White
by Lindsay Currie
Moving to Eastport, the most cursed town in the U.S., and plagued by nightmares, 12-year-old Mallory is forced to investigate the one Eastport legend she's always been afraid of in order to face down a notorious ghost before it destroys everything.
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Scritch Scratch
by Lindsay Currie
Reluctantly assisting her father’s latest ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, an avid young scientist glimpses a mysterious, sad-eyed boy in the back of the bus who disappears before she starts hearing and seeing bizarre phenomena.
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Ghosted
by Michael Fry
Larry's got a few problems. In school, he's one of those kids who easily gets lost in the crowd. And Grimm, Larry's best friend in the whole world, has ghosted him. Literally. One minute Grimm was saving a cat in a tree during a lightning storm, and the next, he's pulling pranks on Larry in his new ghostly form. When the two best friends realize that there's something keeping Grimm tethered to their world, they decide that finishing their Totally To-Do bucket list is the perfect way to help Grimm with his unfinished business.
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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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The Girl in the Locked Room: A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a young girl, who lived there a century before, begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed, in a story told in the voices of Jules and the ghost.
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Otherwood
by Pete Hautman
A boy reevaluates his late grandfather's beliefs about quantum physics, ghosts and hate when an unbelievable event occurs during a fateful afternoon in the woods with a best friend.
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The Collectors
by Lorien Lawrence
Quinn is suspicious of her new neighbors, the Ladies in White, and when her friend Lex starts to act strangely after spending so much time with them, Quinn enlists Mike to help her uncover who the Ladies in White are and what they want with their friend.
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The 2nd Best Haunted Hotel on Mercer Street
by Cory Putman Oakes
When the Hauntery, a corrupt chain of haunted hotels, threatens the livelihood of twelve-year-old Willow's family-run haunted hotel, she teams up with a young ghost from the Hauntery to save the day.
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City of Ghosts
by Victoria Schwab
Surviving a near-fatal accident that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, the daughter of television ghost-hunters visits with her ghost best friend and meets another girl who shares her abilities before realizing the dangers that come with her powers.
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The Screaming Staircase
by Jonathan Stroud
When London is overrun by malevolent spirits, a talented group of young psychic detectives compete against other ghostbusting agencies in the debut of a new series that finds three intrepid colleagues investigating one of England's most haunted houses.
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Ready, Steady, Ghost!
by Elizabeth Baguley
Wanting to learn how to haunt just like the big ghosts, Gilbert, a tiny ghost who lives in a big dark forest, finds his courage tested when he encounters spookier creatures than himself everywhere he goes.
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Leo: A Ghost Story
by Mac Barnett
Leo is a friendly house ghost--but when a family moves into his house, and tries to get rid of him, he leaves and roams the city looking for a friend.
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The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo!
by Elaine Bickell
Discovering that she has lost her ability to make her signature “BOO!” noise, Little Ghost embarks on a search under the crescent moon to find her lost sound, in a not-so-spooky rhyming tale that culminates in a bouncy twist ending.
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Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story
by Pat McKissack
One October night in 1745, John Leep, a mean and stingy lawyer, sets out to evict a widow from one of his rental houses and is followed by a ghostly rider.
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Ghost in the House
by Ammi-Joan Paquette
Slip-sliding his way through a haunted house, a little ghost is joined by a shuffling mummy, a happy little monster and other ghoulish friends before discovering the scariest creature in the house.
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The Scariest Book Ever
by Bob Shea
A melodramatic ghost narrator warns children that the book they are reading is terribly scary before turning paranoid in the face of innocent and silly animals, including a pumpkin-picking bunny rabbit. By the creator of the Dinosaur vs. series.
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Hardly Haunted
by Jessie Sima
House wants to be a home and hopes for a family that doesn’t mind her creaky hinges and banging pipes; however, her new family is not quite what she expected.
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