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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Weight of Empty Rooms
Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34998067
EAN: 9798185870969
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Zustellung: Di, 10.11.2026
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Beschreibung
Some houses don't just keep secrets. They keep watch. When Elena Voss inherits her estranged grandmother's crumbling Victorian at the edge of a town she's never heard of, she expects an awkward inheritance to sort through during the worst year of her life-a finalized divorce, a daughter who's stopped speaking to her in full sentences, and a fresh start neither of them asked for. She doesn't expect the cold spot in the upstairs hallway. Or the presence in her daughter's mirror. Or the word carved into the lid of a well in the cellar, worn smooth by generations of hands:. HOLD. Her grandmother's journals reveal the truth in careful, guilt-heavy handwriting: for over a century, one woman in every generation of the Voss family has paid a quiet, terrible price to keep something bound beneath the house-something old, something starving, something that chose Elena's family long before Elena was born. And now it's begun reaching for her daughter. Elena has two choices: accept the same lonely fate her grandmother spent forty years enduring-or do what no one in her family has dared attempt in a hundred and forty years. Go down into the dark. And ask it, directly, what it actually wants. THE WEIGHT OF EMPTY ROOMS is a slow-burn supernatural novel about inherited fear, the debts families don't talk about, and what happens when someone finally stops running from the thing in the cellar long enough to really see it. Perfect for readers who love atmospheric, character-driven horror in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and Simone St. James-more haunting than gory, more heartbreak than jump scare.