
How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix
2023 · 419 pages · Horror
How it reads
How to Sell a Haunted House is horror (paranormal haunted-house horror, specifically), and its dominant mood is eerie. It's atmospheric and uncanny, with a sense that something is wrong. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in a suburban setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, loss and grief and secrets. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 419 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something eerie
- you want a complete story in one book
- you want to be sure it ends well
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- horror
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- suburban
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- eerie
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- family, loss and grief, secrets
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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