Only, it would seem that their aunt isn’t quite ready to leave them, or the apartment, behind…

The two American girls move to London, to their aunt’s apartment, and slowly become enmeshed in the lives of her former neighbors. When Elspeth dies, she leaves her apartment overlooking the cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. The story is set in London’s Highgate Cemetery (where Niffenegger once worked as a tour guide) - what better setting for a spooky haunted house book? Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerĪudrey Niffeneggger is perhaps best known for her romantic stories about true love ( The Time Traveler’s Wife – one of the most well-known time travel romances), but in Her Fearful Symmetry, she proves she’s got the chops to write brilliant haunted house novels, too! Read Plain Bad Heroines: Amazon | Goodreadsġ5. Read even more fabulous LGBTQ+ books for teens. This is an illustrated story-within-a-story that places strong queer women front and center. It’s not long before the past and present become entangled, and the haunting of Brookhant becomes all too real. Two celebrity actresses are cast as the young girls, and they work closely with the author who wrote a best-selling book about the school. In the present day, a film crew has taken over the abandoned Brookhant campus to make a movie about the school’s strange history. They meet a young and tragic death when they are stung by eastern yellowjacket wasps in the orchard where they had clandestine trysts. In 1902, at the Brookhant’s School For Girls in Rhode Island, two young girls are infatuated with each other and with the writing of bisexual feminist author Mary MacLane. Plain Bad Heroines combines the best of dark academia and haunted house books, with a queer love story and Hollywood glamour to boot! A Castle In The Clouds by Kerstin Gierġ4. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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