protean depravity

Estranged siblings Louise and Mark find themselves back at their childhood house when both their parents die in an excruciating accident, apparently having left the house in a hurry on a rainy night. After their realtor cousin Mercy tells them she can’t sell a house which is very obviously haunted, they decide to cleanse the house of every single one of their mother’s dolls, self-made art and puppets, which proves really difficult with them constantly locking horns. When they reach the (locked) attic, they find something that both of them separately have been trying to burry into the past and never confront again, but, as it is with every thorough cleansing, things need to come to surface and who knows, maybe they can even explain their past behavior to each other and find some kind of redemption? Can Louise protect her own daughter from what has been some kind of curse in this family for so long? And whatever happened for their parents to leave the house like that?

Demon-possessed, blood drenched teenage girls aimlessly running in the woods… Cursed heavy metal songs with the best lyrics since the invention of heavy metal and a music festival to end the world… A warehouse full of haunted ready-to-assemble and ready-to-kill furniture… Sexy vampires kindling the struggle of the sexes in US suburbia… The battle of tropes breaking loose when a group of final girls is confronted with a timelier horror trope… Over the past decade Grady Hendrix has been gradually working his way upwards from class clown of horror literature to seriously credible writer who, with each new work, manages to reinvent a new subgenre of horror. Now you may or may not like his style, you may say he’s not hard enough for a horror writer, but there is one thing in particular that you can never say about Hendrix; that he is not a feminist. Each and every one of his books displays the story of yet another woman otherwise overlooked and erased, brought into the spotlight by Hendrix....