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BOOK REVIEW/ "These Familiar Walls" by C.J. Dotson In her sophomore novel, These Familiar Walls , C.J. Dotson crafts an eerie, tense, mysterious haunted house story that I had trouble putting down when it was time to be a responsible adult and get so...

“C.J. Dotson crafts an eerie, tense, mysterious haunted house story that I had trouble putting down when it was time to be a responsible adult and get some sleep.”

@theaceofknaves.bsky.social reviews the new exciting horror novel by @cj-dotson.bsky.social on the site now!

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A shadow-black ghost holding a candle and a copy of THESE FAMILIAR WALLS

In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood—a boy with dead eyes, a fascination with fire, and no remorse. Their turbulent relationship is brief but creates lasting consequences. Twenty-two years later, in 2020, he resurfaces to kill Amber’s parents, and is in turn betrayed by his accomplice and killed in Amber's childhood home. After the deaths, Amber inherits the house and, in an effort to save money, moves in with her husband and two children, hoping to reclaim some sense of stability in the grief and chaos surrounding her. Instead, she finds that the familiar walls are haunted by more than just bitter memories and lockdown stress. She shifts in and out of dreamlike trances, her reflection won’t meet her gaze, and a menacing voice whispers to her from the gathering shadows. Although she tried to brush off the strange happenings as stress-fueled hallucinations, Amber is soon forced to admit that something much more real—and more dangerous—haunts her family. But Amber has deadly secrets of her own, and she must resolve these long- buried truths or lose the life she’s contrived for herself.

THESE FAMILIAR WALLS is out now!!!

A graphic showing the cover for HOME SICK against a moddy grey mist forest background. Next to the book is a quote from the authors MK Hardy saying "A claustrophobic domestic horror of the nastiest order with an unreliable narrator you can't help but root for."

Thanks again to @mkhardywrites.com for this fantastic blurb. I'm not sure what I love more: "domestic horror of the nastiest order" or "unreliable narrator you can't help but root for".

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Read an Excerpt From These Familiar Walls by C.J. Dotson - Reactor Preteen Amber ignores her family's misgivings when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood…

When Amber returns to her childhood home after a tragedy, she soon has to admit that the menacing voice she hears is more than just grief.

Enjoy an excerpt from C.J. Dotson's (@cj-dotson.bsky.social) These Familiar Walls, coming from St. Martin’s Press on 4/14!
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A poster in the style of old horror / creature feature movies, reminiscent of Swamp Thing, or Creature from the Black Lagoon. In the center is a green hardcover book titled These Familiar Walls, with the words written In flames over a dark green background and the roof of the house. A gold badge is on the right side of the book and says NEW RELEASE! in black letters. To the left of the book there is a section of text which reads "pre-launch of her new horror book!!! Run now grab one early on 4-8-26 official release 4-14-26" To lower the right is a picture of a smaller paperback book with a white cover and a picture of a tentacle squirming down a drain at the center, along the top the title reads The Cut. Across the top of the poster it better reads "Wolfe and Kron Books Presents a Haunted Murder Masquerade at Porta, Asbury Park, NJ" At the top right there is the Wolfe & Kron Books store logo in black and white. It is a drawing of a person in a cloak facing to the left, wearing a wolf skull over their face with a sun-ray tiara on top of their head. They are looking down at a book in their hands. Behind them is an arch delineating the edge of the logo and the store name is written below.

Wednesday April 8th at 6pm JOIN US! ...if you dare... for CJ Dotson's Haunted Murder Masquerade!

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I...I don't... know where the doll is, currently

I just went to get my 7-year-old up to get ready for school and the first thing my darling child did was growl, "How dare you waken me??"

Walking in from my daughter's bus I realized that I'm enjoying the breeze on my face for the first time in months, spring really is on its way!

So do I! When I asked my daughter about it she just laughed really hard and didn't elaborate

The kind of baby doll with a soft stuffed body and hard plastic head and limbs, sans doll clothes, with chunks of play-doh that's been all mixed together into a dark, grayish color stuck onto the doll's lips, cheeks, eyelids, knees, fingertips, toes, and all about its head and face, on an unsettling manner, laying on a floral bedsheet

My husband and I become concerned when we don't know where our 7-yr-old's baby doll is.

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I hope you're having a less panicked-shouting type of morning than I am here, where A SPIDER dropped from the ceiling ONTO MY FOREHEAD and then fell BETWEEN MY GLASSES AND MY EYEBALL and down my face onto my blanket which I have now thrown across the room.

Anybody got a flamethrower I could borrow?

🐑🏡This house isn't haunted. She is.🏡🐑

Thank you to @cj-dotson.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Johanna Van Veen, @rainewilson.bsky.social and @mkhardywrites.com for these wonderful endorsements of HOME SICK by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social!

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It's been a rough week and it's only halfway done, haha. I am trying not to forget about the countdown so much! Today's snippet is from page 41 of the ARC for THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, coming out in 41 days!

Well, it's out about in the world now, it seems!

Check out the US cover for the next big novel, EXHUMATION, out October 2026.

THESE FAMILIAR WALLS comes out in 45 days!!

A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Beneath the book and beside the cat are the words "47 DAYS"

A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Around this, text reads: Amber took another tiny sip, suppressing her grimace. Nathan had already finished his wine, faint purple coloring his lips, and Amber licked hers self-consciously. Nathan saw and grinned, raising his eyebrows in a way she didn't entirely understand. Awkward silence fell. Amber took a longer sip of her wine and tried to think of something cool or funny to say.

A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Beneath the book and beside the cat are the words "46 DAYS"

A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Around this, text reads: The wine bottle he removed seemed big and unwieldy in his hands, one of which wrapped around the graceful taper in a clumsy contrast that made Amber think less of cool teens partying in a movie, and more of herself and Hannah dressing up in Mom's clothes when they were little.

47—NO, wait! 46 days until THESE FAMILIAR WALLS comes out!

(I had yesterday's whole post made and typed and just...forgot to click the button.)

Anyway! Yesterday and today's snippets, from ARC pages 47 and 46!

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A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Beneath the book and beside the cat are the words "48 DAYS"

A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Around the book and cat, text reads: Through the kitchen a door opened to the basement stairs. Amber glimpsed an unfinished room, all concrete floor and cinder-block walls, piled up with unopened cardboard boxes. There must have been small windows out of sight, because dim light cast the room in blues and grays and deep shadows. “Come on,” Nathan whispered.

48 days until THESE FAMILIAR WALLS comes out!

Today's snippet is from page 48 of the ARC.

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A black cat sits on a hardwood floor next to a copy of an ARC of the book THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, which is leaning against a wood wall. Beneath the book and beside the cat are the words "49 DAYS"

49 days until THESE FAMILIAR WALLS comes out!

And a snippet from ARC page 49, in which 12-year-old Amber has been caught making some bad decisions.

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