How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

 How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix  400 pp.

Louise does not get along with her brother.  She feels like he is given everything despite not trying while she has had to work for everything.  When he calls her to tell her that their parents have died in an automobile crash, she has to leave her 5 year old daughter and go back home to Charleston to help take care of things. When she arrives at her parents' home, she finds that the attic drop down door has been boarded up.  While in the house, weird things start to happen: the TV turns itself back on again, dolls from her mother's collection change position, and strange noises begin.  When her brother turns up after a man who claims he is there to clean out the house, she is very angry that he didn't wait for her to take care of anything before she got back.  He also says he had their parents cremated and plans to scatter their ashes on the beach.  Louise doesn't think this is right.  She send the man who wants to clean out the house away and takes the papers about the arrangements he's made and takes off.  She goes to see other family who live in the area who empathize with her.  Eventually, the siblings wind up back at the house to find that everything is not quite right (or ready to go on the market).  In the meantime, Louise's child Poppy is having mental health and health issues while she is staying with her father's family.  In the end, everything comes to a crazy conclusion.

The book is set up with the Kubler-Ross Stages of Grief as section headings which frame the story appropriately to it's parts.  I personally enjoyed the story. Grady Hendrix did an excellent job of framing everything well and gave a little humor to his horror as always. I know that it is not for everyone and if you have a fear of puppets or dolls, this is not the story for you.