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  • Published: 15 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593523544
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Holly Horror #1




A page-turning young adult horror novel that reimagines a beloved classic with a dark twist.

“Energetic and colorfully descriptive.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Full of thrills, chills, and lacy frills, readers will have fearful fun with every page.”—Sara Farizan, award-winning author of Dead Flip

Playmate, come out and play with me,
and bring your dollies three.
Climb up my apple tree,
look down my rain barrel,
slide down my cellar door,
and we’ll be jolly friends forevermore.

For Evie Archer, the story of Holly Hobbie’s disappearance is something only told in hushed conversations within her family. But seeking a fresh start after a difficult divorce, Evie’s mother moves the family to the Hobbie House in Ravenglass, Massachusetts, the very place where Holly vanished one night without a trace more than forty years ago.

When Evie finds Holly’s diary, a strange shadow begins to follow her everywhere she goes, and her dreams are plagued by nightmares of a bonneted girl. Could it be Holly trying to reach out to her? Or is it something else? Something worse?

Evie decides to investigate what happened the night Holly disappeared. But the deeper she goes to look for answers, the more she begins to lose herself in the process, until she can no longer tell what’s real and what isn’t.

Can Evie find out what happened to Holly? Or is history doomed to repeat itself?

  • Published: 15 August 2023
  • ISBN: 9780593523544
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

Michelle Jabes Corpora

Michelle Jabès Corpora is a writer, editor, community organizer, and martial artist. In addition to working in the publishing industry for more than a dozen years as an editor and concept developer, she has ghostwritten five novels in a long-running middle grade mystery series. American Horse Tales: The Dust Bowl is Michelle's first novel under her own name. Her second novel, The Fog of War: Martha Gellhorn at the D-Day Landings (Pushkin Press), also publishes in 2021.

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