![]() ![]() ![]() At first, the book was exactly as anticipated the dialogue was sharp, the narrative voice was engaging, and the requisite story elements - creepy setting, snarky protagonist, exasperated parents, annoying younger sibling - were all present and accounted for. I read a lot of young adult horror, so I thought I knew what to expect when I cracked the cover on Katie Alender’s THE DEAD GIRLS OF HYSTERIA HALL. ![]() And if she’d done that…well, she might be alive today. If Delia had known the truth about the place before she agreed to help her parents prep it for sale, she might have refused to make the trip. That’s right, a former mental institution - and a haunted one, at that. In reality, though, Delia inherited a ginormous creepy stone building that, until the 1940s, housed The Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females. When 16-year-old Delia Piven learned that her great-great-aunt died and left her some property, she assumed said property was a cluttered little cottage. THE DEAD GIRLS OF HYSTERIA HALL by Katie Alender ![]() THE DEAD GIRLS OF HYSTERIA HALL by Katie Alender ![]()
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