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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
5.0

I think this is my favorite Grady Hendrix book so far!
The title is misleading...kind of?
SpoilerYou only find out it's spot on and actually a haunting with a ghost pretty close to the end of the book.
But it was still a great book. The beginning is rough though if, like me, really immature, rude characters that made things 1000x harder/worse just make you SUPER angry as you read. I stuck through it and got to the horror part of this novel which isn't exactly ghosts haunting this house they're trying to sell but...
Puppets.
Dolls, puppets- if it's tiny and uncanny valley-ish and moving around when it shouldn't be I am immediately intrigued and terrified. If this was real life I would make sure it was on fire ASAP.
So this horror was definitely geared towards what I find scary so I was delighted by the book. Also, puppet theater and Mask Technique are so bizarre and fascinating to me, it really is borderline possession and horror!