Help! I REALLY want to reread this horror book. Unable to recall the name.
Hi! I’m looking for a horror novel I read around 2011/2012. Here’s what I remember:
A family (mom,dad, three kids, and a grandmother) move into a house, possibly in Indiana.
There is a shed on the property containing a box that may have held a demon or Jin.
The grandmother is German, Russian and possibly Jewish. She tries to fight the entity, but the parents (at first) dismiss her old-country beliefs.
The youngest daughter befriends the demon, which seems helpful at first. At one point, crows attack a school bully who was mean to the daughter.
The middle child is a boy who rides bikes with neighborhood kids who tell him the house is haunted. And I kinda remember they ride up a hill and you can see the house from it.
The haunting becomes violent and the oldest daughter is assaulted and killed in her bedroom.
It was a really good book. Super scary and I remember thinking it would be a great movie. Can’t remember the title of the author and google as been zero help! I think it’s a very niche and not mainstream book. I found it in a small library at a county club I worked in over the summer. So someone donated the book.
Really hope someone has read it 🤞