The Unhaunting

A brilliant, spellbinding tale of terror that deftly interrogates privilege and generational trauma while scaring your socks off. You’ve never seen a haunted house like this one before – Kylie Lee Baker, Sunday Times bestselling author of Japanese Gothic
A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at turns ferocious and poetic - and sometimes both at once – Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones
One of the most original, imaginative, and terrifying takes on the haunted house genre I’ve read… Johnson has written a novel of unfathomable crimes, privilege, and the buried traumas of our past that exposes both the horrors of the supernatural, and the ones that lurk in our mundane world. Once you start reading, you will not want to put it down – P. Djèlí Clark, award-winning author of Ring Shout
The Unhaunting charts the liminal middle ground between Shirley Jackson and Toni Morrison, mapping out the unnerving terrain that exists within the bated breath between Micaiah Johnson’s beguiling words – Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
Anxiety-inducing from start to twisty end, The Unhaunting kept me up all night! As only Micaiah Johnson can deliver, this ingenious spin on the haunted house story explores how privilege, much like Abernathy House, is as mesmerizing as it is cruel, and the price it exacts is nothing short of horrific. Come inside, if you dare – Victor Manibo, author of The Villa, Once Beloved
A strong new voice * Sunday Times *
[The Space Between Worlds] It remained two steps ahead of my imagination * The New York Times *
[The Space Between Worlds] Twisting, suspenseful and profound – Max Gladstone, co-author of the Hugo and Nebula-winning THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
[The Space Between Worlds] Johnson excels at contrasting lives of privilege and poverty * Guardian *

Micaiah Johnson is a Carl Brandon and Compton Crook Award-winning author. Her debut novel, The Space Between Worlds, was a Sunday Times Bestseller, a Locus Award finalist, an Editors’ Choice at The New York Times and was named one of best books of 2020 and one of the best science fiction books of the last decade by NPR. Her follow-up novel, Those Beyond the Wall, was released in March 2024 and has been named as a Best Books of 2024 by NPR, Reactor, Esquire and Lithub. She received her BA in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside, and her MFA in fiction from Rutgers University-Camden, and her PhD from Vanderbilt University.

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