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Tamika Thompson's The Curse of Hester Gardens is a Black Gothic horror and an innovative twist on the haunted house novel

Inspired by creepy classics like Halloween, Goosebumps and Twilight Zone, it also takes on issues like gun violence, trauma and poverty

Below, read an exclusive excerpt from The Curse of Hester Gardens

Horror fans, get ready for a new novel that will probably hit pretty close to home.

The Curse of Hester Gardens is about a "mother desperate to protect her sons from the twin specters of gun violence and otherworldly menace in their public housing project," according to an official synopsis. It's been called an "innovative twist" on the haunted house novel, and follows a mother trying to protect her sons in a housing project wracked by gun violence,

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