"In the kitchen, glass shattered. Then, there was a sound like wet laundry hitting the ground. A pale white hand flopped over the threshold. It laid perfectly, eerily still.
The Drama Club was dead. Again. Or they weren't. They could get up, find another bottle, and start the cycle all over. Or they could stay dead, surrounded by broken bottles and a nightmarish mix of crawling spiders."
I imagine at this time of year there's a lot on high school graduations going on. Which means a whole lot of graduation parties going on--both the officially sanctioned ones and shall we say more covert ones. The gathering that is the setting for Lily Anderson's Killer House Party definitely is of the latter variety.
Arden, Anderson's narrator is furious with good reason. All through high school she's been the perfect student--sacrificing any vestiges of a social life and studying diligently with dreams of college and med school dancing through her head. So when her parents tell her that they have spent all her college fund on a house but it's no big deal because one semester of community college will net her the realtors license she will need to follow in their footsteps...
...she is not a happy camper. Determined to follow her own script, she looks for a way to earn the money she needs to attend the four year college she's been accepted at. How about holding a clandestine graduation party at the house Mommy and Daddy Dearest spent her college money on? The school's official lock in party is much too tame for many graduates' tastes. Why not provide a pay to enter alternative?...
...Even under the best of circumstances this would be such a not good idea. Think lack of supervision. Think illegal substances. Think property damage, injuries, legal liability...
...But these are far from the best of circumstances. The house has been abandoned for a century which bodes for all kinds of property damage. And then there's the reason it stayed vacant. Nobody knows exactly what happened to the family who lived there. But all kinds of sinister and gruesome theories are floating around.
The night of the party the venue transforms itself into a hideous hellscape from which the teens cannot escape. Only one thing is for sure...
...not all the guests will get out alive.
On a purrrsonal note, I know with me raving about the Orono Public Library Summer Reading Challenge some of you may feel let down that your library doesn't have one. My Amber, whose second horror novel, Hallowed Deadly Seeds, is dropping soon, has a great solution: create your own. It doesn't have to be fancy schmancy. She's planned a family one because her siblings live a distance away in South Maine. Each person sets their own reading goal. We buy or make prizes for each other. At the end there's a pizza party. Sounds like fun to me.
Amber has another great suggestion for summer fun. If you want to know what it is I guess you'll have to keep reading this blog.
Jules Hathaway
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