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On a dark prairie road in the Kansas countryside stands the Finch House, long abandoned and overgrown. A few days before Halloween, best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend the night there, joined by three other famed writers of the macabre. Together, they plan a publicity stunt to revive the house’s infamy.
The night quickly unravels into a fight for survival as an unseen entity, awakened by their presence, stalks and terrorizes the group. The house’s dark legacy threatens to claim them as its new victims, turning a moment of curiosity into a deadly horror encounter.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Scott Thomas
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