Title: The Haunted
Author: Bentley Little
Genre: Horror
Pages: Oversized paperback, 347
ISBN: 978-0=593-19997-8
Opening Lines: "'We're here again, Dad.'"
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"Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right
"The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's seen in the corner of the basement, staring at hime and shuffling ever so slowly.
"Pity no on warned them about the house. Now it's too late. Because the darkness at the bottom of the stairs is rising . . ."
~ Jacket copy
Most smaller towns in the United States have that one neighborhood with that one house. You know the one. All of the children are afraid to go near it during Halloween, and most times teenagers will dare each other to enter just to demonstrate some machismo. Unfortunately, the Perry's new home is that house. And they're about to find out what the truly entails for the inhabitants.