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BENEATH THE STAIRS
In this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house, where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago.
Few in Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House, hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to go in. One summer, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into this haunted place. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did.
Twenty years later, an adult Clare receives word that Abby, who drifted from her life, has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma. With little to lose and still grieving after a personal tragedy, Clare returns to her roots to uncover the darkness responsible for Abby's accident.
An eerie, enthralling page-turner, The Octagon House is about the trauma that follows us from childhood to adulthood. It's about returning to the beginning to reach the end.
Read before bedtime at your own risk...
Jennifer Fawcett grew up in rural Eastern Ontario and spent many years in Canada making theatre before coming to the US. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Her work has been published in Third Coast Magazine, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Storybrink, and in the anthology Long Story Short, published by Playwrights Canada Press. She teaches writing at Skidmore College and lives in upstate New York with her husband and son.
Twenty years later, an adult Clare receives word that Abby, who drifted from her life, has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma. With little to lose and still grieving after a personal tragedy, Clare returns to her roots to uncover the darkness responsible for Abby's accident.
An eerie, enthralling page-turner, The Octagon House is about the trauma that follows us from childhood to adulthood. It's about returning to the beginning to reach the end.
Read before bedtime at your own risk...
Jennifer Fawcett grew up in rural Eastern Ontario and spent many years in Canada making theatre before coming to the US. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Her work has been published in Third Coast Magazine, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Storybrink, and in the anthology Long Story Short, published by Playwrights Canada Press. She teaches writing at Skidmore College and lives in upstate New York with her husband and son.
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Published 2022-02-22 |