For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame. He has traveled with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Everything changes when he meets a local ghost called Anna Dressed in Blood. She is unlike any ghost he has faced before, a girl entangled in curses and rage. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, it is now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.

320 pgs. - ISBN: 9780765328656

AR Points - IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12

Keywords: horror, ghost story, first in a series, starred reviews, language, sequel is Girl of Nightmares