Synopses & Reviews
A chilling epistolary psychological horror that will keep you guessing, even after the final page.Twenty-five years ago, Elmbridge High burned down. Five people were killed . . . and one pupil, Carly Johnson, disappeared. Carly had a troubled background and had been under psychiatric care following the deaths of her parents.
Now a diary has been found in the ruins of the school. The diary asserts that Carly had an alter ego, Kaitlyn, who only came out at night. The diary belongs to Kaitlyn.
Re-opened police records, psychiatric reports, and a fellow-pupil's video diary of the time suggest that Kaitlyn may really have existed. But why did so few people know her? What did she have to do with the death of Carly's parents? And why were the only people to acknowledge her existence either dead or not talking?
These are the secrets and horror awaiting in the Dead House.
Synopsis
Welcome to the Dead House.
Three students: dead.
Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace.
Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, "the girl of nowhere."
Kaitlyn's diary, discovered in the ruins of Elmbridge High, reveals the thoughts of a disturbed mind. Its charred pages tell a sinister version of events that took place that tragic night, and the girl of nowhere is caught in the center of it all. But many claim Kaitlyn doesn't exist, and in a way, she doesn't - because she is the alter ego of Carly Johnson.
Carly gets the day. Kaitlyn has the night. It's during the night that a mystery surrounding the Dead House unravels and a dark, twisted magic ruins the lives of each student that dares touch it.
Debut author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully weaves together a thrilling and terrifying story using psychiatric reports, witness testimonials, video footage, and the discovered diary - and as the mystery grows, the horrifying truth about what happened that night unfolds.
About the Author
Dawn Kurtagich is a young writer of psychologically sinister fiction, and she has a dark and twisted imagination! She lives in Wales, an ancient and mountainous country within the UK (go to England's Midlands and turn left towards the sea). However, she grew up all over the world, predominantly in Africa. She writes and blogs for YA Scream Queens and is a member of the YA League. The Dead House is her first novel.