The Showing
She fakes hauntings for a living. The house she's rigging just started running better tricks than hers.
Merritt Voss is why a certain kind of old house sells fifteen points under asking: sixty dollars of transducer behind 1871 plaster, a murmur with no words in it. Nobody wants a ghost. They want a discount with a backstory. Every effect she builds is numbered, cued, logged — hers.
Is the house haunted — or is someone in it lying? She would know. Lying is her job.
Each story complete. No cliffhangers.
The Porch Light & the Wrenfield file
Sign up for The Porch Light and Emlyn will send you the Wrenfield file — a buyer's guide to haunted property: what your agent doesn't have to tell you, how a ghost gets priced into an asking price, and a rig-spotter's checklist for telling a haunting from sixty dollars of hardware. Invented, every word of it; the documents in Wrenfield always are. The arithmetic is the part that will bother you.
About the author
Emlyn Harrow writes psychological suspense with the lights off and the receipts kept — stories set in the older corners of New England, where every house has a history, a listing price, and at least one room the agent walks past a little too quickly.
The Wrenfield Hauntings begins with The Showing. Three books, one haunted town, each story complete — no cliffhangers, no cheats. The Harrow contract is printed on every one of them: a single twist, earned, with every clue on the page. Bet against it at your own risk; readers who lose that bet at 2 a.m. were warned.
Emlyn Harrow does not appear at conferences, does not do book tours, and does not answer questions about which parts are true. The houses are invented. The way people behave around them is not. Letters reach the author right here — the porch light is on.