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Violence
Some
Moderate; horror violence and the supernatural threat
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant; Melanie Tem's psychological horror operates through family grief, trauma, and the horror that comes from people who once meant everything
What this book is about
Melanie Tem's horror novel draws on her characteristic strengths — psychological depth, family dynamics, and the horror that lives in ordinary emotional experience — to explore the consequences of a return from death that is not quite what anyone hoped. Tem (who wrote Prodigal with Steve Rasnic Tem) brings her background as a social worker to horror fiction that is always about real human damage.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Supernatural horror
Psychological family horror
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