Do Not Give It Your Name

A house on a crumbling California cliff has spent a century learning the people who live and die inside it through stone, sea, and eventually phones, recordings, and dreams. When a folklore professor, a maintenance man, a priest, an administrator, and a housekeeper all end up under its roof at the same time, the house finally has what it wants: bright, stubborn minds to study, and a chance to turn its private hunger into a story the whole world will carry.This novel is for readers who like haunted-house horror with brains: creeping dread instead of jump scares, smart characters who refuse "e;Final Girl"e; logic, and a monster that behaves more like a system and a concept than a single ghost. It asks what happens when a place learns to listen, to talk back, and to negotiate, and what ordinary people can do when saying no to a haunting matters as much as salt and holy water.