Hush Little Hauntings

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About the Book

Model Home meets Delicate Condition in this hauntingly original gothic horror about a mysterious midwife tasked with delivering hauntings who must uncover the truth behind her newest patient’s uncanny birth before it tears her world apart.

Within Midhouse, a secluded manor deep in the woods, midwife Halie has a strange calling: overseeing the births of hauntings. Each arrives as an uncanny miniature—perfect replicas of places steeped in pain and unresolved wrongs. And once nestled within Midhouse’s walls, they reach ghostly fingers back into the world, seeking justice and retribution.

When Midhouse’s newest patient, Isabelle, arrives, Halie expects a routine birth, but the house-child is fragile, incomplete in a way she’s never seen. Halie suspects Isabelle is hiding a dangerous secret. Then strange men arrive at her door—and Midhouse changes.

Corridors lengthen, rooms disappear, and Midhouse itself becomes hostile. To survive, Halie must uncover the truth behind Isabelle’s arrival before she’s lost in a haunting of her own.

About the Author

Steve Coogan

Marie Croke is a prolific short fiction writer with almost fifty stories in publication. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex Magazine, Fireside, Cast of Wonders, among other magazines and anthologies. She has worked as an editor for multiple magazines, including khoréo and Dark Matter INK. Hush Little Hauntings is her debut novel.

Product Details

  • Publisher: S&S/Saga Press (March 2, 2027)
  • Length: 272 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781668260357

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Raves and Reviews

"Hush Little Hauntings is a unique, dreamy, and tender horror novel that I will gladly allow to haunt me for a long time to come."

– Johanna Van Veen, author of Blood on Her Tongue

"A truly original haunted house story that will keep readers on their tip-toes as they try to guess what comes next. Hush Little Hauntings is poignant, startling, and tender—and sure to thrill fans of Sarah Gailey, Gwendolyn Kiste, and Carmen Maria Machado."

– Maria Dong, author of Liar, Dreamer, Thief

"Hush Little Hauntings is a lilting, lyrical shroud filled with echoing voices that desire to be heard. Croke crafts an unsettling and intimate tale of trauma, loneliness, suppression, but also one of overcoming, reclamation, and the courage to tear down and rebuild.”

– Ai Jiang, author of A Palace Near the Wind

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