Sanctum
The Cursed House
by Emma Stone
Book Details
- Pages
- 302
- Published
- 1 June 2026
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction > Horror
About This Book
A place once meant for peace. Now it just wants to keep you.
When Emma and her brother move into the old house on Grayson Hill, they think they’ve scored big, cheap rent, quiet neighbors, and a fresh start. But the house has its own plans. Doors don’t stay shut. Whispers crawl through the vents. And something in the basement is waiting.
Locals call it the Sanctum. They say it used to be a church, then a home, then... something else. A place once meant for peace. Now it just wants to keep you.
Nobody really knows. But everyone agrees on one thing: people go in, and they don’t come out the same.
Emma starts seeing things. Her brother sleepwalks into rooms they never unlocked. And the house? It’s learning. It’s watching. It’s hungry.
Sanctum isn’t just haunted. It’s alive.
About the Author
Emma Stone
Emma Stone never planned on writing horror until a sleepless night and a creaky floorboard convinced her otherwise. Born and raised in a small town where stories travelled faster than cars, she grew up surrounded by whispers, shadows, and the kind of silence that makes you check twice before turning off the lights. Sanctum is her debut novel, inspired by a real house she once lived in (and swore she’d never step foot in again). Emma writes with a love for the eerie, the emotional, and the kind of fear that lingers long after the last page. When she’s not writing, she’s probably binge-watching ghost documentaries, drinking too much coffee, or trying to convince herself that the noise in the attic is “just the wind.”
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