If Hidden Pictures by left you craving domestic dread laced with supernatural unease, then reach for The September House by .
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- Haunted house horrors meet family dysfunction
- Resilient woman defies gaslighting & ghosts
- Creeping dread escalates w/ clever reveals
- Buried trauma unpacked through supernatural lens
Rekulak trained you to crave domesticity gone wrong—where the suburban veneer cracks to reveal something watching from beneath. Orlando delivers that same intimate horror, but swaps the nanny's sketchbook for a house that bleeds every September. The supernatural doesn't intrude here; it's woven into the wallpaper, the marriage, the mother-daughter faultlines you'll recognize from your own family texts. This is haunted house fiction for readers who want their scares to bruise emotionally, not just startle.
Where Hidden Pictures gave you drawings that whispered secrets, The September House offers manifestations that accumulate like evidence in a case you're building against your own denial. The dread doesn't spike—it compounds, page by suffocating page.
Read it for the ghosts; stay for the reckoning with every time you doubted your own instincts.
What Readers Are Saying
"Shocking, electrifying, and absolutely original. Carissa Orlando takes us on a journey that moves from savagely funny to terrifying with the turn of a page." — Simone James, Goodreads
"This was such a powerhouse of a read that I was beyond happy at how great it was from beginning to end. It was so creatively written that it blew me away and pushed the envelope in the haunted house horror genre." — LTJ, Goodreads
"The September House isn't like any other horror book I've ever encountered. The tone isn't dark and depressing as all heck. Instead, there's this levity that makes it so much fun." — Yun, Goodreads
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