Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works include Horseman, Near the Bone, The Ghost Tree, Looking Glass, The Girl in Red, The Mermaid, Lost Boy, Alice, and Red Queen. She enjoys running long distances, reading anything she can get her hands on and watching movies with samurai, zombies and/or subtitles in her spare time. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son and tweets @C_Henry_Author.

On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their parents to stay away. Of course, children don?t listen. Children think it?s fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside. Jessie Campanelli dared her little brother Paul. But unlike the other kids, Paul didn?t return. His friends say that the house ate Paul. Of course, the adults didn?t believe that them. Adults never believe what kids say. But the disappearance of her little brother broke Jessie?s family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Now an adult with a child of her own, Jessie still lives on the street with the house that ate her brother, crouched and waiting. A darkness seems to spread from the house, a darkness that feels alive ?and hungry.