How to Sell a Haunted House 📖

How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix
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horror psychological horror with supernatural elements past tense third limited POV ~482 pp

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claustrophobic traumatic gothic

A dark horror. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 80
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 90
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count120,380
Page count~482 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited