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The presence in the house is pain. Abram says you can evict a haunt but how do you get pain to leave?

“She had an increasingly unnerving sense that the house could hear them. If it heard something that made it angry, who knew what it might do?”

John-Lester saw a crying man in the attic

A grieving ghost

“Death comes in threes.”

Repetition of this phrase adds a constant, thrumming dread

Aunt Haddie was in movies, limited to servant and maid roles as a black woman, but used the money she made from acting to buy 724 Hartford Street on her own

All characters connected by way of grief

Lewis’ grief is so heavy, so disorienting and he isolates himself in his denial, disconnecting from the reality of his loss and the physical (rotting) proof of it

Delilah becomes increasingly protective of the house, seemed to be “some other person, some other entity”

This is historical and gothic horror but really explores manifestations of grief, too, through denial, avoidance, estrangement, and isolation