The Place Where They Buried Your Heart

By Christina Henry

A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel from the national bestselling author of The House That Horror Built and Good Girls Don't Die.

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 from that house. But of course, children don't listen. Children think it's fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside.

Jessie Campanelli did what many older sisters do and dared her little brother Paul. But unlike all the other kids who went inside that abandoned house, Paul didn't return. His two friends, Jake and Richie, said that the house ate Paul. Of course adults didn't believe that. Adults never believe what kids say. They thought someone kidnapped Paul, or otherwise hurt him. They thought Paul had disappeared in a way that was ordinary, explainable.

The disappearance of her little brother broke Jessie's family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Jessie grew up, had a child of her own, kept living on the same street where the house that ate her brother sat, crouched and waiting. And darkness seemed to spread out from that house, a darkness that was alive--alive and hungry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593953959
• ISBN13: 9780593953952
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

majorly haunted house!

What a perfect book to read in these dark fall nights where spirits and other supernatural creatures feel real and could be just around the corner from you! You want a creepy haunted/monster house that shaped a neighborhood with disappearances, murders, and horrifying injuries that gets stronger with each death? Then this is a great choice! This book is part horror, starting with Jessie sending her brother, Paul into the McIntyre house on a dare which leads in turn to many more deaths (kind of reminiscent of It), but also how one would live with the house, unable to move away. I really admire Jessie for her strength, especially when that house keeps taking from her, how she could rely on the other "old guards" (people that also stay as watchers of the house), having them be her family as she collects stories of the house and possible reasons why it is what it is (and there are a lot of tragedies related to that house!) and how it changes and even grows in power. Lots of gory bits with the house eating, but also its power leaching out into other house nearby (including a very awful nail gun violence!). You get kinda ghosts, eldritch type horrors and a heartbreaking ending that mirrors the beginning but with healing instead. I really enjoyed reading this book and discovering all the horrors that the McIntyre house had hidden in its depths, as well as the journey of Jessie to bring an end to its reign of terror on that street in Chicago! Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read this haunted tale!