{"product_id":"marla-1","title":"Marla","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, \u003ci\u003eMarla\u003c\/i\u003e is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can't forget. Turn the page--if you dare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn King's Branch, Indiana, everyone knows the Gorman House. Everyone whispers about the girl in the upstairs window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Carl Lancaster is driving the same back road he's driven a thousand times when he glances up--and meets a stare that freezes him to the bone. Minutes later, a body turns up. Coincidence, he tells himself. Then it happens again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnie Frost, a child-protection social worker with a crumbling home life, is used to walking into other people's nightmares. But a tense visit with a volatile family ties her fate to the Gorman House--and to a secret she's spent her entire life suppressing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDylan Ellison, twenty-one and drifting, comes home for the summer and finds himself drawn to the beautiful, enigmatic Marla Gorman. Curiosity becomes obsession; fascination becomes fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs strange deaths ripple through the county and rumors sharpen into patterns, Carl, Annie, and Dylan are pulled toward the same locked door: a creaking Victorian filled with moonlit hallways, a shadowed toy room, and a presence that smiles without kindness. In a town that wears its love of horror like a badge, suspicion is contagious, memory is dangerous, and some windows look back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56086172434754,"sku":"9798228741591","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/2930\/3106\/files\/9798228741591-cover-591708af1247f0def607.jpg?v=1788485556","url":"https:\/\/longdarkhouse.com\/products\/marla-1","provider":"Long Dark House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}