Make a Home of Me

Author: Vanessa Santos

Horror & ghost stories

Published on 12 June 2025 by Dead Ink Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 160 pages
197 x 129 x 15mm | 144g

Longlisted for the 2026 Dylan Thomas prize Peer through the keyhole and what will you see? A mysterious dinner party with a sickening twist. A woman’s intense new relationship with a single father and his strangely shy daughter. The rediscovered journals of a famous artist with a singular obsession who disappeared in suspicious circumstances. A family driven to desperation by the impossible appearance of nonsensical notes. A seemingly happily married couple driven to the edge of despair by a neighbour’s crying baby. Set in houses that should provide protection but instead turn on their inhabitants, places of safety invaded without warning, and familiar landscapes that gradually change beyond recognition, Make a Home of Me is about all the ways in which our sanctuaries can turn into foreign places, casting us as strangers as we roam the halls. The stories in Make a Home of Me are unsettling and distinct, introducing a fresh new voice in the horror landscape. Lock up when you’re done...