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The Upstairs House

by Julia Fine

New motherhood has ghosts, and Megan can see them.

About The Upstairs House

Exhausted after giving birth, Megan Weiler is mostly alone with her newborn when the ghost of Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown appears upstairs. As another spirit joins the haunting, Megan’s postpartum unraveling becomes a supernatural struggle that threatens mother and child.

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Spice
None
Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Balanced
Content warnings
  • child-abuse
  • homophobia
  • grief
  • death
  • mental-illness
  • psychosis
  • abandonment
  • postpartum depression
  • self-harm
  • birth trauma

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