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Summer in the House of the Departed
*This is a sometime place not an all the time place…*
Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes—along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady doesn’t worry too much about that, having spent his childhood listening to his grandmother’s stories and playing with the pencil-sketched ghosts in her old Victorian: the young Shirley, the injured cowboy Glen, and others.
*People slipping away into another world is fantasy. It’s impossible.*
Summer 2025: Brady returns to his grandmother’s house, hoping to understand what happened, and to find out exactly where his grandmother went. Brady holds a hope close to his heart: That he can duplicate whatever magic his grandmother conjured, to follow in her footsteps as his own ghost-tattered life comes to its close.
*I was there. I know what I saw…*
"Summer in the House of the Departed is a golden-edged tale of the bond between a boy, his eccentric grandmother, and her ghost-filled old home. Rountree gives us the type of story we've come to expect from him: rich, poignant, and delightfully bittersweet. I loved it." — Chris Panatier, author of The Redemption of Morgan Bright
Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes—along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady doesn’t worry too much about that, having spent his childhood listening to his grandmother’s stories and playing with the pencil-sketched ghosts in her old Victorian: the young Shirley, the injured cowboy Glen, and others.
*People slipping away into another world is fantasy. It’s impossible.*
Summer 2025: Brady returns to his grandmother’s house, hoping to understand what happened, and to find out exactly where his grandmother went. Brady holds a hope close to his heart: That he can duplicate whatever magic his grandmother conjured, to follow in her footsteps as his own ghost-tattered life comes to its close.
*I was there. I know what I saw…*
"Summer in the House of the Departed is a golden-edged tale of the bond between a boy, his eccentric grandmother, and her ghost-filled old home. Rountree gives us the type of story we've come to expect from him: rich, poignant, and delightfully bittersweet. I loved it." — Chris Panatier, author of The Redemption of Morgan Bright
110 pages, Paperback
First published August 26, 2025
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About the author
Josh Rountree
41 books109 followersJosh Rountree is a novelist and short story writer who works across multiple genres, focusing mostly on horror and dark fantasy. His novel The Legend of Charlie Fish was released by Tachyon Publications in 2023 to wide acclaim, making the Locus Recommended Reading List, and being named one of Los Angeles Public Library’s best books of the year.
More than seventy of his short stories have been published in a variety of venues, including The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Realms of Fantasy, PseudoPod, Weird Horror, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. Several collections of his short fiction have been published, including Fantastic Americana, and most recently, Death Aesthetic, featuring tales of death and transformation.
Rountree lives in the greater Austin, TX metro with his lovely wife of many years, and a pair of half-feral dogs who command his obedience.
More than seventy of his short stories have been published in a variety of venues, including The Deadlands, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bourbon Penn, Realms of Fantasy, PseudoPod, Weird Horror, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. Several collections of his short fiction have been published, including Fantastic Americana, and most recently, Death Aesthetic, featuring tales of death and transformation.
Rountree lives in the greater Austin, TX metro with his lovely wife of many years, and a pair of half-feral dogs who command his obedience.
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August 22, 2025
Review in the morning, I love this book
December 8, 2025
Reading a Josh Rountree book is like covering yourself with your favorite blanket. His prose is beautiful his imagery, vivid. Everything this man writes is always one of my favorites. This one is no exception. This is the story of Brady, a young boy in the 70s who’s spending the summer with his grandmother who just happens to be a paranormal investigator. How cool would that be? Interesting things start happening in that house. It’s a summer of sadness and life-changing moments. This book will make you cry, but there are those perfect scenes of memories being made. This was more than a ghost story, this was a look at life, all the pain and beauty and love and hurt we feel throughout our existence. I cannot recommend this book enough, and Josh as a writer whom you need to start reading immediately. Thank you so much Josh for this arc, this book will stay in my heart forever!
July 26, 2025
A beautiful reflection on life, death, and happenings beyond our understanding, Summer in the House of the Departed immediately settles you into Brady’s home among the ghosts and bittersweet memories. In a world of sorrow and pain, this story reminds us that there is still light that can cut through the darkness, urging us to savor the sincere friendships and love we stumble upon, whether from this world or beyond the veil. Also, I did tear up at several parts and you definitely will too if you have/had a close relationship with your grandmother. A very moving, quick read I highly recommend.
August 20, 2025
Author Josh Rountree crafts a haunting, coming-of-age novella about ghosts, death, and West Texas in Summer in the House of the Departed. This is a beautiful read where the ghosts are melancholy, sickness is as everyday as layers of dust, and the wonder of magic can be transcendent.
Bookended by two summers, 1981 and 2025, Brady starts and (perhaps) ends his life in his eccentric grandmother’s sprawling haunted house. Granny, her body wasting away under the stresses of cancer, searches for answers to the unexplained — the lost Roanoke Colony, a developed photo that constantly changes, the restless apparitions that drift through her halls — while Brady seeks meaning in his own young life where his adolescent companion is a dead girl named Shirley. Decades later, Brady returns to that same house, carrying the weight of a lifetime, to look for the truths Granny could never quite grasp.
Throughout it all, Rountree treats the reader to his unique narrative voice. He balances the wide-eyed awe of Brady as a boy with the cigarette-burnt gaze of a man looking backward. Rountree’s prose is sympathetic and sad yet laced with a dusty sort of beauty, making this short story appear all the shorter. He folds in the crackle of Texas thunderstorms, the ache of family ties, and the claustrophobic haze of cigarette smoke until the story feels more inhaled than read.
Summer in the House of the Departed is fantasy-tinged horror that lingers like a half-remembered dream. This is tender, eerie, and it feels true — like the best ghost stories always do. Rountree’s ghosts don’t just haunt the house — they haunt you, long after the book has been put down. Summer in the House of the Departed proves some houses never stop keeping their secrets.
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Bookended by two summers, 1981 and 2025, Brady starts and (perhaps) ends his life in his eccentric grandmother’s sprawling haunted house. Granny, her body wasting away under the stresses of cancer, searches for answers to the unexplained — the lost Roanoke Colony, a developed photo that constantly changes, the restless apparitions that drift through her halls — while Brady seeks meaning in his own young life where his adolescent companion is a dead girl named Shirley. Decades later, Brady returns to that same house, carrying the weight of a lifetime, to look for the truths Granny could never quite grasp.
Throughout it all, Rountree treats the reader to his unique narrative voice. He balances the wide-eyed awe of Brady as a boy with the cigarette-burnt gaze of a man looking backward. Rountree’s prose is sympathetic and sad yet laced with a dusty sort of beauty, making this short story appear all the shorter. He folds in the crackle of Texas thunderstorms, the ache of family ties, and the claustrophobic haze of cigarette smoke until the story feels more inhaled than read.
Summer in the House of the Departed is fantasy-tinged horror that lingers like a half-remembered dream. This is tender, eerie, and it feels true — like the best ghost stories always do. Rountree’s ghosts don’t just haunt the house — they haunt you, long after the book has been put down. Summer in the House of the Departed proves some houses never stop keeping their secrets.
Head on over to Read @ Joe's for more summertime reads and reviews like this one.
September 12, 2025
This little novella packs a lot of emotional punch. A haunted house that calls you home. An entire town getting ghosted. Generational ghost stories that stick.
We follow Brady, a boy spending a summer with his grandmother in a Victorian house in West Texas. His grandmother is a savant when it comes to the supernatural, and Brady has some abilities of his own. Then, his grandmother (and the entire town) vanish.
Years later, Brady returns to the house as a middle-aged man, determined to uncover what happened that summer; and to find out if he can see his grandmother again, one way or another.
The structure of this novella is brilliant: two summers spent in a haunted house, framing Brady’s life. And in barely over 100 pages, Rountree manages to explore so much: the pain of watching loved ones age, the weight of anticipatory grief, the importance of stories and memory, the inevitability of death and the ways love carries forward, even into what comes after.
This story surprised me by being cozier than I expected, but no less haunting. I adored the Texas setting (of course!) and the infusion of local lore and history. It reads like an homage. There’s something both gritty and ethereal in Rountree’s writing, it’s like western folklore. His prose is quiet but impactful.
Thank you to Psychopomp and Josh Rountree for the gifted copy! These opinions are my own.
We follow Brady, a boy spending a summer with his grandmother in a Victorian house in West Texas. His grandmother is a savant when it comes to the supernatural, and Brady has some abilities of his own. Then, his grandmother (and the entire town) vanish.
Years later, Brady returns to the house as a middle-aged man, determined to uncover what happened that summer; and to find out if he can see his grandmother again, one way or another.
The structure of this novella is brilliant: two summers spent in a haunted house, framing Brady’s life. And in barely over 100 pages, Rountree manages to explore so much: the pain of watching loved ones age, the weight of anticipatory grief, the importance of stories and memory, the inevitability of death and the ways love carries forward, even into what comes after.
This story surprised me by being cozier than I expected, but no less haunting. I adored the Texas setting (of course!) and the infusion of local lore and history. It reads like an homage. There’s something both gritty and ethereal in Rountree’s writing, it’s like western folklore. His prose is quiet but impactful.
Thank you to Psychopomp and Josh Rountree for the gifted copy! These opinions are my own.
June 27, 2025
An abaolutely heartbreakingly and achingly beautiful story about ghosts, grief, and magic threaded into the everyday world. Rountree's prose gleams and shimmers and there are echoes of Bradbury in the shadows and half light.
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December 11, 2025This book is difficult to review. It's very slow-paced and not much happens (aside from 2 key events), but I think the slowness is the point of the book. It's a portrait of life in a rural small town in the summer of 1981 with a paranormal twist. Unfortunately, I found it a bit boring and felt that even at 100 pages, it was a little too long. This is the kind of book where every single thing is described to you from the name tag on every waiter's shirt to the color and make of every car. If this over-descriptive writing had been pulled back a bit, I think it would've been more successful. (I will say though that I wasn't able to appreciate some of the nostalgic elements of this book since I wasn't alive in the 1980s; someone who grew up in the 80s could probably get more of the references).
Other aspects of the writing could have benefitted from more editing as well. The narrator says his grandmother is dying from the same type of cancer that his grandfather died of ("I'd heard enough to know the sort of cancer that killed my grandfather was now taking my grandmother too"), but then later describes his grandmother's cancer with the words "mastectomy" and "metastasis," implying metastatic breast cancer. Yes, men could have breast cancer too but it's extremely rare and I have a feeling this was more of an oversight on the part of the author rather than him trying to say both grandparents died of breast cancer.
Content-wise, bringing magic spells and rituals into what originally felt like a quiet ghost story also made the story feel a lot less believable. In some ways, this book is similar to Elevation by Stephen King, but where there was only 1 big unexplained mystery in that book, this one tries to juggle several. I think that might be why this one felt less satisfying - there are multiple things in this world that don't make sense and aren't explained, whereas one anomaly is easier to accept. I think this book could have been significantly improved if
Something I enjoyed in this book was the little stories sprinkled throughout. The author's Afterword states that these are true stories that were told to his grandma, and I liked that autobiographical element although I am a bit skeptical about the author's claim that he has a photo that changes every time he looks at it.
Because there aren't many reviews for this book on Goodreads, I won't leave a star rating, but I'd give this about 2.5 stars for personal enjoyment.
Other aspects of the writing could have benefitted from more editing as well. The narrator says his grandmother is dying from the same type of cancer that his grandfather died of ("I'd heard enough to know the sort of cancer that killed my grandfather was now taking my grandmother too"), but then later describes his grandmother's cancer with the words "mastectomy" and "metastasis," implying metastatic breast cancer. Yes, men could have breast cancer too but it's extremely rare and I have a feeling this was more of an oversight on the part of the author rather than him trying to say both grandparents died of breast cancer.
Content-wise, bringing magic spells and rituals into what originally felt like a quiet ghost story also made the story feel a lot less believable. In some ways, this book is similar to Elevation by Stephen King, but where there was only 1 big unexplained mystery in that book, this one tries to juggle several. I think that might be why this one felt less satisfying - there are multiple things in this world that don't make sense and aren't explained, whereas one anomaly is easier to accept. I think this book could have been significantly improved if
Something I enjoyed in this book was the little stories sprinkled throughout. The author's Afterword states that these are true stories that were told to his grandma, and I liked that autobiographical element although I am a bit skeptical about the author's claim that he has a photo that changes every time he looks at it.
Because there aren't many reviews for this book on Goodreads, I won't leave a star rating, but I'd give this about 2.5 stars for personal enjoyment.
August 23, 2025
I have always had a fascination with ghost towns and abandoned places and have visited many, including Roanoke Island - the disappearing colony that remains one of the biggest mysteries in American history.
In the opening words of Summer in the House of the Departed, the narrator’s grandmother, Brady, tells us that his grandmother disappeared in 1981 when he was 8 years old, “taking an entire Texas town with her”, just like the Roanoke colony, about which she was writing a book.
The first half of the novella follows Brady and his granny, who has end-stage cancer, in 1981, where he spends his summers with her in a house she bought because she believed her husband’s spirit is there. Brady believes it, too, although he doesn’t see his grandfather the way he sees the other ghosts in the house. When not working on her Roanoke project, Granny shares stories about the many photos she’s collected as an occult researcher. Brady, who prefers living in fantasy books, feels most at home with Granny and her stories and always regrets returning to his parents and is devastated when his grandmother disappears.
In the second half, Brady, now sick with cancer himself, returns to the house in 2025 to find out what really happened to his grandmother and to make his peace with it and his life since.
Summer in the House of the Departed by Josh Rountree is a haunting tale about grief and how it affects those left behind, and it’s a beautiful story about the bond between a boy and his grandmother and the stories they share, and spending a little time with them was a bittersweet pleasure.
Thank you to the author and his publisher Psychopomp for the advance copy for my honest review.
In the opening words of Summer in the House of the Departed, the narrator’s grandmother, Brady, tells us that his grandmother disappeared in 1981 when he was 8 years old, “taking an entire Texas town with her”, just like the Roanoke colony, about which she was writing a book.
The first half of the novella follows Brady and his granny, who has end-stage cancer, in 1981, where he spends his summers with her in a house she bought because she believed her husband’s spirit is there. Brady believes it, too, although he doesn’t see his grandfather the way he sees the other ghosts in the house. When not working on her Roanoke project, Granny shares stories about the many photos she’s collected as an occult researcher. Brady, who prefers living in fantasy books, feels most at home with Granny and her stories and always regrets returning to his parents and is devastated when his grandmother disappears.
In the second half, Brady, now sick with cancer himself, returns to the house in 2025 to find out what really happened to his grandmother and to make his peace with it and his life since.
Summer in the House of the Departed by Josh Rountree is a haunting tale about grief and how it affects those left behind, and it’s a beautiful story about the bond between a boy and his grandmother and the stories they share, and spending a little time with them was a bittersweet pleasure.
Thank you to the author and his publisher Psychopomp for the advance copy for my honest review.
August 24, 2025
Summer in the House of the Departed is about Brady, an eight-year-old boy who loves spending his summers with his grandmother in West Texas. When we meet Brady it's summer of 1981. Brady is a lonely child who doesn't seem to make many friends or fit in. His beloved grandmother is an occult and supernatural loving woman with many stories that he loves to hear her tell. She's known in the town as the person you should go to if you have any supernatural questions or stories you want to tell yourself. The bond between Brady and his grandmother, whom he refers to as Granny, is so special and unlike any other, and the two of them need each other more than they think.
They spend their days reading books and telling stories. Granny's house is special though, as it's one of the most haunted houses in town. Brady is able to see the spirits in the house and even thinks of them as friends. To others, this may seem odd, but to Brady it is completely normal.
Granny spends her days writing her books and searching for a way to figure out what happens to us after we die, and needless to say, she ends up finding that out.
This book came to me unexpectedly and hit me so completely hard. I spent a lot of time with both of my grandmas growing up and this made me so nostalgic for those lazy days with them that I took for granted. It makes me teary eyed just thinking about it and after reading this book I miss them more than ever.
Summer in the House of the Departed is something so special and readers are really going to enjoy it. Josh Roundtree is fast becoming an instant read for me. READ THIS BOOK!
They spend their days reading books and telling stories. Granny's house is special though, as it's one of the most haunted houses in town. Brady is able to see the spirits in the house and even thinks of them as friends. To others, this may seem odd, but to Brady it is completely normal.
Granny spends her days writing her books and searching for a way to figure out what happens to us after we die, and needless to say, she ends up finding that out.
This book came to me unexpectedly and hit me so completely hard. I spent a lot of time with both of my grandmas growing up and this made me so nostalgic for those lazy days with them that I took for granted. It makes me teary eyed just thinking about it and after reading this book I miss them more than ever.
Summer in the House of the Departed is something so special and readers are really going to enjoy it. Josh Roundtree is fast becoming an instant read for me. READ THIS BOOK!
November 19, 2025
I enjoyed Rountree’s other Texas-based stories, so I was happy to receive an ARC of Summer in the House of the Departed.
The first thing that struck me in this novella was the spirit of the place and time, taking me back to my childhood. I grew up in a desolate area that still bears the scars of the ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl. Rountree’s portrayal of his characters’ language and cadence of speech rang true to my memories. Immersive details—a beaded cigarette case, clothing decorated with conchos—brought images of my mother, my grandmothers, my aunts. And the wind! Rountree acknowledges the wind perfectly in his description of the titular house: “…leaning ever so slightly eastward, a concession to a century of relentless wind.” Sounds much like my great grandmother’s farmstead.
Rountree’s expertise in crafting a convincing setting extends into character development. These folks are easy to love. Granny and eight-year-old Brady have a magical relationship. The ghosts that inhabit Granny’s house are endearing and touched with compelling mysteries. I wanted to reach through my screen and hug each of them.
The story is broken into two parts. The first, set in 1981, thrums with questions and tension. That tension is compounded with a jump forward, to 2025. I couldn’t pause my reading because I so badly wanted to witness these mysteries coming to fruition, to see these characters to find what they needed. I wasn’t disappointed, and I imagine other readers will love this story as much as I did.
The first thing that struck me in this novella was the spirit of the place and time, taking me back to my childhood. I grew up in a desolate area that still bears the scars of the ecological disaster known as the Dust Bowl. Rountree’s portrayal of his characters’ language and cadence of speech rang true to my memories. Immersive details—a beaded cigarette case, clothing decorated with conchos—brought images of my mother, my grandmothers, my aunts. And the wind! Rountree acknowledges the wind perfectly in his description of the titular house: “…leaning ever so slightly eastward, a concession to a century of relentless wind.” Sounds much like my great grandmother’s farmstead.
Rountree’s expertise in crafting a convincing setting extends into character development. These folks are easy to love. Granny and eight-year-old Brady have a magical relationship. The ghosts that inhabit Granny’s house are endearing and touched with compelling mysteries. I wanted to reach through my screen and hug each of them.
The story is broken into two parts. The first, set in 1981, thrums with questions and tension. That tension is compounded with a jump forward, to 2025. I couldn’t pause my reading because I so badly wanted to witness these mysteries coming to fruition, to see these characters to find what they needed. I wasn’t disappointed, and I imagine other readers will love this story as much as I did.
March 28, 2026
Charming and melancholy, a Bradburyesque valentine to small towns and lost times, and also his grandma, who apparently really did nurture a whole universe of 70s paranormal incidents and happenings. Mostly melancholy, though, in that our narrator watches his dying grandma decide whether or not to hang around this world, is destroyed emotionally by what he sees her choose, and spends the next 40+ years wandering the earth in search of meaning, friendship, friends, a purpose, and eventually just a way to pursue the same destiny he watched come for her--a consummation devoutly to be wished, as Hamlet put it. I also enjoyed this as a rural Texas twist on the haunted-house genre, with the original town's site becoming a place of pilgrimage due to rumors of rapture.
I quite enjoy the 70s-born solicitude of the weird on display here, which you also see in work of writers like Will Ludwigsen, a Gen-X aesthetic nurtured and articulated much more in retrospect than it was then, at least if you were a kid. At the time, seeing the Six Million Dollar Man fight Bigfoot, or reading Charles Berlitz--I will always remember the flight of planes getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle and saying sky and sea were one--was just how things were; there was an ambient post-60s weirdness that, due to our lack of historical context, we took to be normal.
I quite enjoy the 70s-born solicitude of the weird on display here, which you also see in work of writers like Will Ludwigsen, a Gen-X aesthetic nurtured and articulated much more in retrospect than it was then, at least if you were a kid. At the time, seeing the Six Million Dollar Man fight Bigfoot, or reading Charles Berlitz--I will always remember the flight of planes getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle and saying sky and sea were one--was just how things were; there was an ambient post-60s weirdness that, due to our lack of historical context, we took to be normal.
January 30, 2026
This short novella is poetic and mysterious, and leaves much unexplained but that is what makes it a glorious piece of work. The reader is invited to finish and fill in the narrative where they so choose. This is the mark of a confident writer, and Rountree knows that if he explains TOO much the mystery and joy will be ruined. There is a greater world inside the one contained within these pages, and if another story were to be published that came back to this fictional world, I would read it. No question,
Even the structure of the book reflects the patterns of memory, the logic of dreams, with the narrator recalling events and then living them in the moment, then recalling events..etc... Again....much is left to our imagination, and Rountree keeps his focus on the ghosts and the grandmother and that great mystery that awaits us all.
Even the structure of the book reflects the patterns of memory, the logic of dreams, with the narrator recalling events and then living them in the moment, then recalling events..etc... Again....much is left to our imagination, and Rountree keeps his focus on the ghosts and the grandmother and that great mystery that awaits us all.
September 22, 2025
8 year old Brady is spending the summer with his dying, widowed grandmother at her haunted house in windswept Texas.
Rountree is gifted at creating a sense of time and place. He uses words and pacing and chapter breaks and descriptions that perfectly capture a hot, dry, quiet, despairing summer where Brady finds himself at a thin place between life and death where spirits drift and souls ache for what is missing.
Granny knows she is at the end and she is using her knowledge and experience as a ghost hunter to find her dead husband and rejoin him at her death. But her plan turns catastrophic and Brady spends his life reeling from that fateful summer.
Simply and utterly gorgeous. A perfect novella. A wonderful read.
Rountree is gifted at creating a sense of time and place. He uses words and pacing and chapter breaks and descriptions that perfectly capture a hot, dry, quiet, despairing summer where Brady finds himself at a thin place between life and death where spirits drift and souls ache for what is missing.
Granny knows she is at the end and she is using her knowledge and experience as a ghost hunter to find her dead husband and rejoin him at her death. But her plan turns catastrophic and Brady spends his life reeling from that fateful summer.
Simply and utterly gorgeous. A perfect novella. A wonderful read.
October 24, 2025
This book is the closest thing to reading Ray Bradbury that isn’t Ray Bradbury. It’s full of the nostalgia of long childhood summers with your grandparents, and the adult grief that comes with looking back and realizing the time ahead of you is now shorter than the time already passed. SUMMER IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEPARTED is a ghost story, but it’s also a warm hug. Death isn’t something to fear in this book; like Robin Williams’s Pan says in HOOK, it’s the next adventure.
September 15, 2025
Reading Summer in the House of the Departed feels like standing outside in the hot August rain and then going inside with a chill in your bones. The characters here (the living and the dead) feel so vividly alive, especially the Southern ghost-hunting grandma and her bookish-and-brave grandson. A wise and compelling story of the literary Weird.
September 19, 2025
From my blurb: "Summer in the House of the Departed is a golden-edged tale of the bond between a boy, his eccentric grandmother, and her ghost-filled old home. Rountree gives us the type of story we've come to expect from him: rich, poignant, and delightfully bittersweet. I loved it."
December 11, 2025
3.75 ⭐️ Fine example of masterful storytelling. A ghost story full of heart. The author has a gift for creating indelible characters and deep, complex relationships among them. Really enjoyed this one
August 27, 2025
This book is something special. I hope everyone reads it. Gorgeous story and the afterword made me smile.
I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
October 20, 2025
this was stunning. i find myself at a loss of words for how gorgeous this story was. so achingly beautiful.
December 8, 2025
Beautiful and haunting
November 8, 2025
Summer in The House of The Departed is a beautifully written story. It's about loneliness, grief, explorations of other dimensions, wonder, and hope. And lots of ghosts. The story just flows, and I was surprised that instead of being depressing, it's actually soothing. I love a good ghost story, and this is one of my favorites of all time. It's a fast read and is full of heart. Instead of just being afraid of death and the supernatural, why not embrace it? It made me remember things about my mother, who would follow every smoke with a peppermint candy, and loved Willie Nelson. Definitely recommend.
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