Recommended for those who liked Katherine Arden and Lorien Lawrence, and Holly Black’s Doll Bones, (and I noted a tinge of Clive Barker’s Abarat in the clouds as well. What we don’t know is whether the Clackity wants revenge, or to somehow add its uniqueness to the murderous collective.īut first she has to pass through the haunted houses haunted with penny-eyed hollow people, a killer slamming open doors behind her, candy witches, and one who would steal her most precious memories.

Evie is joined by a shadow sparrow protective in an old religion sort of way, and The Clackity checks up on her progress regularly.

The villain here is something akin to Freddy Kreuger, a serial child killer who has come back in supernatural form to continue his reign of horror. She is the author of The Clackity (a Bram Stoker Award Nominee) and The Nighthouse Keeper and credits her love of words to her parents and to the public library that was walking distance from her childhood home. The catch is, if the deadly John Jeffery Pope catches Evie in the fields of purple grass… things might not end so pleasantly for her. Lora Senf is a writer of dark and twisty stories for all ages. Evie must travel to the other side of the shock tunnel, visit six houses, (each haunted to be sure,) rescue her Aunt Des… then lead the local boogeyman back to The Clackity! When she cannot follow, she makes a fair deal with a supernatural creature calling itself The Clackity who gives her directions to bring back her aunt. Following her past the meat grinder with fingers in the drains, Evelyn (Evie Von Rathe) witnesses her Aunt Desdemona disappear into the shadows of the local abandoned slaughterhouse in a town besieged by ghosts.

The Clackity by Lora Senf