The House of Quiet Faces
Funeral homes were never meant to be playgrounds. Yet for one boy in a small Arkansas town during the height of the 1980s "Satanic Panic," they became the backdrop of his adolescence. While his mother worked as a cosmetologist for the dead and sold pre-arranged funerals to the living, he wandered the chapels and casket rooms, listening to the whispers of morticians, storm winds, and ghosts that refused to stay still.
The House of Quiet Faces drags the reader into an unsettling world where horror bleeds from every corner:
Silent figures that gather outside the monument yard.
Blood that seems to move with a will of its own.
Children daring each other into s ances and graveyard rituals.
A newborn's sigh echoing in the embalming room long after her tiny body has gone still.
Part supernatural horror, part Southern gothic, and part intimate coming-of-age nightmare, this novel explores how the living are scarred by death long before their own arrives. Told in a polished yet deeply human voice, the story balances small-town Ozark atmosphere with haunting set pieces that will leave readers holding their breath and questioning the quiet in their own homes.
For fans of Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, and ghost stories rooted in the bones of American towns, The House of Quiet Faces offers not just chills but the kind of dread that lingers long after the book is closed.
Death may be silent, but in this house, silence speaks.
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