TY - BOOK AU - Fawcett,Jennifer TI - Beneath the stairs: a novel SN - 9781982177157 AV - PS3606.A925 B46 2022 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20211105 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Atria Books KW - Haunted houses KW - Fiction KW - Horror fiction KW - lcgft N2 - "Few in sleepy Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his wife and two young daughters there, a shocking, gruesome crime that the sleepy upstate New York town tried to bury. One summer night, an emboldened fourteen-year-old Clare and her best friend, Abby, ventured into the Octagon House. Clare came out, but a piece of Abby never did. Twenty years later, an adult Clare receives word that Abby has attempted suicide at the Octagon House and now lies in a coma. With little to lose and still grieving after a personal tragedy, Clare returns to her roots to uncover the darkness responsible for Abby's accident."-- ER -