It wasn’t as if we didn’t both have places to be. Which is why it was so strange that the only things bugging me this morning were the ordinary kind-as in (a) how late I was going to be to my summer job volunteering at the library, and (b) how completely frustrating my aunt Desdemona was acting over breakfast.

There were a hundred other things about Blight Harbor to worry about if you weren’t used to them, but most of them were basically harmless.

There was the mirror in the town hall foyer that refused to reflect anything, which worked out just fine, because we were all pretty sure the mayor was descended from a long line of vampires on her maternal grandmother’s side (although the mayor’s husband was a regular guy named Steve). And we all steered clear of the pair of seats in the movie theater that were always taken, and the streetlight on Derry Road that flickered if you stood under it at night and told a lie. Nearly everyone had a ghost living in their house or knew someone who did. There was no shortage of otherworldly concerns in Blight Harbor, mainly because it was the seventh most haunted town in America (per capita). Will she ever find Des, or is The Clackity planning something far more sinister? Excerpt Evie reluctantly embarks on a journey into a strange otherworld filled with hungry witches, penny-eyed ghosts, and a memory-thief, all while being pursued by a dead man whose only goal is to add Evie to his collection of lost souls.

The Clackity makes a deal with Evie to help get Des back in exchange for the ghost of John Jeffrey Pope, a serial killer who stalked Blight Harbor a hundred years earlier. There she meets The Clackity, a creature who lives in the shadows and seams of the slaughterhouse. But when her aunt disappears into the building, Evie goes searching for her. Des doesn’t have many rules except one: Stay out of the abandoned slaughterhouse at the edge of town. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.Įvie Von Rathe lives in Blight Harbor-the seventh-most haunted town in America-with her Aunt Desdemona, the local paranormal expert. Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A.

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