In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant

Raised by her grandparents in a small Midwest town, she found purpose in solving mysteries.

The gang rescued her from a cycle of self-destruction and loneliness that kicked off with the mysterious death of her parents. This is an unwelcome turn of events for orphaned Harlowe “Harley” Upton. We were far enough outside Chicago to miss the exciting parts of life in the big city, and too close to it to be truly rural. And here we all still were, stuck in a dead-end town whose only selling points were a remarkable tendency to attract the supernatural, the semi-supernatural, and the just plain weird. Life does what it wants, and damn the consequences. Life didn’t quite work out that way, of course. Adulthood was the final mystery, and as long as we never opened our doors and announced our intention to unravel it, it would wait its turn. Robots and mummies and kids who thought it was funny to kill one of Kevin’s chickens, draw weird glyphs with its blood, and try their best to raise the dead? Absolutely? Growing up? Nah. In the face of college and that dread adversary The Future, well, the merry band is about to scatter. There’s a gang of sleuth kids, you see, who have discovered that what was fun and socially acceptable when they were young is not received in quite the same way now that they are entering adulthood. The events in this current novel are much smaller scale. Her previous novella, THE KINGDOM OF NEEDLE AND BONE, ravaged the world with a disease apocalypse. However, when the need for bloodshed arises, the author is not afraid to take it to the max. Like her longer novels (e.g., the NEWSFLESH series), these slender volumes tend to blend the horror genre with a worldview that is not afraid to be downright comic at times and macabrely humorous at others. Like her previous releases through that specialty house (see our reviews for FINAL GIRLS, ROLLING IN THE DEEP, and THE KINGDOM OF NEEDLE AND BONE) it is a standalone work exploring a horror staple.

IN THE SHADOW OF SPINDRIFT HOUSE is the latest novella from Mira Grant, made available as a limited edition hardcover edition as well as an easily available eBook from Subterranean Press. It’s been the ruin of many an investigator. Haunting Fears: Dark… on In the Presence of Some Unnatu… Haunting Fears: Dark… on Whosoever Meets Her Gaze Shall… The World Is Much La… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… To Become The Wicked… on Haunting Fears: Darker Than Ni… Michael on Richard III in the 1980s: Warl…

Haunting Fears: Darker Than Night (1975).The World Is Much Larger Than One Small Village: Rapiña.To Become The Wickedest Witch of All: Poison for the Fairies (1986).

Infected With Where I Live/Let Me Live Without This Empty Bliss: Cyn Balog’s You Won’t Believe Me.Richard III in the 1980s: Warlock (1989).

In the Shadow of Spindrift House by Mira Grant