



Evie is a capable, vulnerable, brave, and anxious hero she’s real. Senf’s worldbuilding is fantastical and compelling, the scares hair-raising. What awaits Evie as she crosses into the other world are seven dangerous, cursed, booby-trapped houses that she must navigate in order to save Aunt Des. Despite its being off-limits, Evie goes in after her and makes a bargain with The Clackity, a demented, sharp-toothed creature: She will find her aunt and in return, fetch him the ghost of serial killer John Jeffrey Pope, who famously used the slaughterhouse for killing humans in the early 20th century. However, when Aunt Des goes to investigate the town’s abandoned abattoir, she disappears. Evelyn Von Rathe is on a twisted, spooky hunt for her aunt, who has been taken into a supernatural maze by an evil creature called The Clackity.īlight Harbor is one of the most haunted towns in America, and 12-year-old Evie’s Aunt Desdemona, who has cared for her since her parents died, is well versed on the otherworldly.
