HALLOWEEN

Some doors should never be opened. Some invitations should never be accepted. And some things learn from everyone who survives them.
In 1975, in Kinshasa, Zaire, a young Jérémie Ngoma follows three companions into an abandoned house built near an old burial ground.
They expect superstition.
They find something waiting.
Something that knows their names.
Something that speaks in the voices of the dead.
And when Jérémie escapes, two of his companions are gone-and the house itself has vanished.
For fifty-one years, he lives with the guilt of what happened that night.
Then comes Halloween.
In a quiet North Carolina neighborhood alive with costumes, decorations, and trick-or-treaters, eighteen-year-old Thomas begins noticing things that don't belong. Strange symbols. Red threads. Knocks where no one should be. Faces that are almost right. Voices that know exactly what the living most desperately want to hear.
And his grandfather Jérémie knows more than he has ever admitted.
As Halloween night deepens, Thomas, his girlfriend Blossom, and those trapped with them are drawn into a nightmare where memory can be copied, grief can become an invitation, and the face of someone you love may no longer prove who-or what-is standing before you.
Soon the question is no longer whether ghosts are real.
It is whether something can learn to become human simply by watching us.
And every choice Thomas makes may be teaching it how.
HALLOWEEN is a supernatural psychological horror novel about grief, identity, family, guilt, and the terrifying distance between recognizing someone and truly knowing them.
For readers who enjoy intelligent supernatural horror, haunted-house mysteries, slow-building dread, and stories where the most frightening monsters don't merely hunt us-
they study us.