“Maybe lucky places were haunted, the rest were just forgotten.”

Mara is 26 and floating through life with little aspiration. She feels like a bit of a leftover in her own family. Her cousin who is a tv host of a home renovation haunted house show offers her a job as an assistant. So while Mara is amping up the haunted houses scares, she is facing a haunting of her own. 

I didn’t even think labelling something cozy horror would be accurate but here we are. It has classic supernatural horror elements but there’s no gore and nothing viscerally scary about this one but it still can’t be fully removed from the horror genre. Think Casper the friendly ghost as an angsty teenager, that’s what this novella felt like.

An easy and fun, cozy horror novella, this is one where certain story elements shine in audio. It is a full cast narration and there are transcripts from the episode Mara is helping film sprinkled throughout. It was a delightful little romp through the behind the scenes of a tv home improvement show with the quirky fun of a ghost hunting reality show. 

Are the haunts real? Do they just need a little coaxing to come out? Do the ghosts think your millennial grey aesthetic might be what sends them over the veil?