Louise learns that her parents have died in a car crash, and comes back to Charleston, SC for the funeral, fully expecting to fight with her brother, Mark, whom she deems spoiled, selfish, and unreliable. Mark has hired someone to empty the house so that they could put it on the market. Louise is aghast at his decision to do that without consulting her, and she calls off the crew. But when she goes into the house, the creepiness hits her hard: Hundreds of dolls are in the house, as well as puppets that their mother had made. Very weird things happen which she tries to rationalize away. Later, Louise and Mark can no longer rationalize what happens after they are attacked by the toys, as well as by an imaginary animal Mark had created in his youth.
Their mother, Nancy, was the creator of the puppets, and had even had a Christian puppet ministry for some years. The trigger for the eeriness seems to lie in her childhood and with her family. The house had been in her family when she was a child.
The creepy factor is high in this book! It's not my usual style novel, having grabbed it quickly, thinking in error that the haunting had to do with old memories. By the time I had properly read the blurb on the dust jacket, I decided to plunge in anyway. Quite a trip.
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