On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.
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Aimless and looking for direction, Mara lands a job as a production assistant on her cousins ghost hunting, home makeover reality TV showHaunt Sweet Home.
As she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises phony scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents force Mara to confront the person shes really been deceiving all alongherself.
Eerie and surprisingly tender,Haunt Sweet Homeis a supernatural tale about growing up and finding your own path.
Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award winning author of
A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites,
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea,
Lost Places, and over sixty works of short fiction. Her stories have appeared in
Asimov's,
Strange Horizons,
Fantasy & Science Fiction, and
Uncanny, and in numerous anthologies and years bests. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her wife and two weird dogs.
Praise forHaunt Sweet Home
Nominated for theLocusAward!
Sarah Pinsker delivers yet again.Haunt Sweet Homecuts directly to the heart of a life that feels like it's haunted by the person living it. This one is fraught in all the right places. Sarah Gailey, bestselling author ofJust Like Home
Kind but not gentle, Pinsker cuts to the core of the lives we craft and those that are imposed on us, and how it feels to be both in the circle by the fire, and forever lurking in the shadowy woods beyond. Kathleen Jennings, author l'