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The Dead House

by Dawn Kurtagich

A school fire reconstructed through fragmented records

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A school fire reconstructed through fragmented records

Two decades after a deadly fire at Elmbridge High, a diary found in the ruins reopens questions about the deaths of three students and the disappearance of Carly Johnson. Its pages are joined by psychiatric reports, witness accounts, and video footage, so the story’s account of that night emerges through several kinds of evidence. The central mystery turns on Kaitlyn, the suspected student whose identity is bound to Carly’s, and on conflicting claims about whether Kaitlyn existed at all. Mental illness and divided identity are part of the book’s subject matter, alongside the lingering consequences of the school’s tragedy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in psychological mysteries set around a school tragedy.
  • Readers who enjoy stories assembled from diaries, reports, testimony, and video records.
  • Readers interested in fiction engaging with mental illness and divided identity.

Themes

Memory and evidenceMental illness and divided identitySchool tragedy and its aftermathMystery and uncertainty

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Book overview

In this terrifying psychological thriller, a diary discovered in the burned out ruins of a long forgotten high school unearths the twisted truth behind the deadly fire.

Welcome to the Dead House.

Three students: dead.

Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace.

Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear. The main suspect: Kaitlyn, "the girl of nowhere."

Kaitlyn's diary, discovered in the ruins of Elmbridge High, reveals the thoughts of a disturbed mind. Its charred pages tell a sinister version of events that took place that tragic night, and the girl of nowhere is caught in the center of it all. But many claim Kaitlyn doesn't exist, and in a way, she doesn't--because she is the alter ego of Carly Johnson.

Carly gets the day. Kaitlyn has the night. It's during the night that a mystery surrounding the Dead House unravels and a dark, twisted magic ruins the lives of each student that dares touch it.

Dawn Kurtagich delivers a thrilling and terrifying story using psychiatric reports, witness testimonials, video footage, and the discovered diary--and as the mystery grows, the horrifying truth about what happened that night unfolds.
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