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Beneath the Wallpaper
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Mercy Ridge, order isn't a habit-it's a hunger.
When Hollis Wren inherits Number Eleven Sycamore, restoration means rules: circles chalked on plaster, paste sweet with vinegar and blood, and a mirror that runs one heartbeat slow. At 3:03 each night, the house knocks-polite as prayer, relentless as grief. What began as a tidy haunting becomes a revelation: generations of women once paid a midwife to bind a domestic demon that punishes mess. The binding was never finished.
As furniture stacks itself and salt rings align to military precision, town secrets surface-backward names tucked beneath pie plates, a bell that tolls funerals without a rope, a pastor who calls harm mercy. To save Poppy June from being put away, Hollis must complete the pattern and out-argue a house that learned the wrong verbs.
Beneath the Wallpaper is a Southern-Gothic psychological horror about communal guilt, found-family courage, and the cost of neatness when neatness turns cruel. No tech saviors. Just hands, paste, and the oldest bargain of all: what a house keeps-and what it takes.
Perfect for fans of haunted houses with rules, domestic folk-rituals, and slow-burn dread.
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