You Will Never Sell This House

By Scott Alexander Hess

A family curse. A lusty midnight visitor. A terror awakened.

Still grieving the death of his lover, Colm returns to the family estate on Christmas Eve to prepare to sell the house. An unexpected visit from Sebastian Lore, his brutish yet handsome neighbor, leads to fireside drinks.

As things heat up between them, Sebastian shares a long-buried secret that sheds a terrifying light on Colm’s father’s prophetic warning: You will never sell this house.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Jan 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781634868259

Scott Alexander Hess

An award-winning writer, Scott Alexander Hess has written fiction which has appeared in the Thema Literary Journal and Omnia Revitas Review. Diary of a Sex Addict is his second novel; his first, Bergdorf Boys, was serialized in Ganymede Journal. He is working on another novel set in rural Arkansas and New York City circa 1918. His screenplay, Tom in America, is being produced by Queens Pictures in 2012. Scott has contributed to various national magazines, including Genre, OutTraveler, and Instinct. Scott is a MFA graduate of The New School.

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You Will Never Sell This House

By Scott Alexander Hess

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You Will Never Sell This House

By Scott Alexander Hess

The house was three stories of gray stone, reachable only by a twisting dirt road that snaked four miles from the proper two-lane.

At the end of the road, around a final hairpin turn, it towered atop a massive mound of black dirt. Nothing grew on the black hill, which was damp and warm to the touch year round.

No one lived in the house. The windows were shuttered, the insides dark. Within the walls, though, there was a constant, restless stirring. And at times, an echo of a melody drifted room to room, floor to floor, stirring dust with its movement of memory. Something waited.

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The Fiat’s top was firmly snapped shut against the winter chill. Colm recklessly left the