Publication Date: November 4, 2025
A woman must confront the evil that has been terrorizing her street since she was a child in this gripping haunted house novel from the national bestselling author of The House That Horror Built and Good Girls Don’t Die.
On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their parents to stay away from that house. But of course, children don’t listen. Children think it’s fun to be scared, to dare each other to go inside.
Jessie Campanelli did what many older sisters do and dared her little brother Paul. But unlike all the other kids who went inside that abandoned house, Paul didn’t return. His two friends, Jake and Richie, said that the house ate Paul. Of course adults didn’t believe that. Adults never believe what kids say. They thought someone kidnapped Paul, or otherwise hurt him. They thought Paul had disappeared in a way that was ordinary, explainable.
The disappearance of her little brother broke Jessie’s family apart in ways that would never be repaired. Jessie grew up, had a child of her own, kept living on the same street where the house that ate her brother sat, crouched and waiting. And darkness seemed to spread out from that house, a darkness that was alive—alive and hungry.
Every town has that one abandoned house serving as the catalyst for urban legends featuring strange disappearances, foul odors, and mysterious lights.
However, the McIntyre place not only possesses a horrifying backstory, but it wreaks havoc on the neighborhood. Author Christina Henry delivers a horrifying tale in The Place Where They Buried Your Heart.
Jessica Campanelli narrates the story, which unfolds with a devastating event involving her family. The history of the house is woven into her narrative, which underscores the house’s dark abilities.
The house takes on a life force of its own, drawing people inside where they become trapped. The cast of secondary characters within the neighborhood adds to the story’s effectiveness.
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart highlights the battle of good vs. evil.
Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works include The House That Horror Built, Good Girls Don’t Die, Horseman, Near the Bone, The Ghost Tree, The Girl in Red, The Mermaid, Lost Boy, The Chronicles of Alice series (Alice, Red Queen and Looking Glass) and the seven-book urban fantasy Black Wings series.
Her short stories have been featured in the anthologies Elemental Forces, Cursed, Twice Cursed, Giving the Devil His Due and Kicking It.
She enjoys running long distances, reading anything she can get her hands on and watching movies with samurai, zombies and/or subtitles in her spare time. She lives in Chicago with her husband and son.
