Pretty Little Things

Alex doesn’t believe in ghosts, or demons, or the sort of lingering evil that can make a place feel more like pestiferous rot than a home. He does believe in trauma, and Dahlia has plenty of that. That’s why he thinks it best for his wife to let her late father’s house go wherever it is unclaimed property goes. But Dahlia wants to fix it, sell it, and give their children the lives that neither of them ever had.

Dahlia claims the house remembers the atrocities committed within its walls, and the land itself is tainted. It doesn’t take long for him to realize that things here are different. Nightmares are more real, figures move in shadows, and evil thoughts linger in innocent minds for far too long.

As Alex tears into the drywall, his grip on reality begins to slip. His oldest daughter is terrified of the man she claims lives in the walls, and the nightmares Alex suffers feel more like memories. When he stumbles into a literal torture chamber, he’s faced with what Dahlia’s mind refuses to remember.

Alex must decide if he is losing his mind to the infection of the home, or if something very real, and very hungry, is stalking his family.