Play Nice

Praise for Play Nice:

Brings the sarcastic knowing snap of early 2000s Lindsay Lohan movies to a haunted house epic, and that’s not a bad thing.
-Chicago Tribune

Rachel Harrison is in a league of her own-maybe a genre of her own. Play Nice is the sexiest, scariest, most fun haunted house novel I’ve ever read, a Barbie Dreamhouse oozing blood, one of those perfect blends of horror, heart, and winking wit only she can pull off. This book is so gripping it performed its own possession; I physically couldn’t put it down. Harrison is my horror queen, and this book is her best yet.
-Ashley Winstead, USA Today-bestselling author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour

I raced through Rachel Harrison’s Play Nice, drawn in by the relatable protagonist and the irresistible blend of horror, mystery and family drama. Play Nice is a great fit for anyone who enjoyed The Good House or Grady Hendrix’s How to Sell a Haunted House, taking the reader on a spooky journey through the haunted spaces from the past that plague us all.
-Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Award winner, The Reformatory

Play Nice is as fun as a journey into darkness and family trauma can get. Rachel Harrison crafts a uniquely spirited haunting that’s both ruthlessly frightening and overflowing with heart.
-Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Lucky Day and Bury Your Gays

Play Nice packs a prickly punch by cleverly nesting its possession story within another kind of familial and familiar possession. While the demon at the center of it all terrorizes the women in Clio’s family when they are most vulnerable, the book is scary because there’s more than one kind of demon.
-Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and The Cabin at the End of the World

Rachel Harrison once again gives us our best friends, our best enemies, our best crushes, and our worst nightmares. This time sexier, scarier, grittier than ever before.
-CJ Leede, USA Today bestselling author of American Rapture

To call Play Nice Rachel Harrison’s scariest book yet is to perhaps risk downplaying how it’s also as deft and gripping a guessing game about literal and metaphorical demons as A Head Full of Ghosts or The Haunting of Hill House. Yes, this book is just that good. But it’s also scary as hell.
-Nat Cassidy, author of Mary and When the Wolf Comes Home

Real estate is hell, and that’s before you add in family secrets, inherited trauma, the lie of objective truth, and also a literal demon. Play Nice is a funny, deft, and very scary novel about an influencer, a possessed house, and the inescapable horror of realizing you can never truly know another person, even (or especially) when they’re family. No horror writer currently working has a better understanding of the inner lives of millennial women - Rachel Harrison is in a class of her own, and Play Nice is her best book yet.
-Emily C. Hughes, author of Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch

Play Nice is Harrison at her best. Creepy, paranoid, and full of heart. A nuanced, humanistic take on the supernatural. How our lives and relationships are haunted by our past… sometimes literally. A home possession thriller that sits on the same block as Amityville, but has significantly higher resell value.
-Adam Cesare, author of Clown in a Cornfield and Influencer

Rachel Harrison isn’t playing around. Play Nice is her scariest book so far, by far, so don’t say you weren’t warned. Reading Rachel is akin to an incantation, summoning a master craftsman of horror, then ending up possessed by her downright demonic ability to hurt and haunt you all at once. No exorcism will expel this novel from your consciousness.
-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Play Nice is an exorcism of a haunted heart-a singular, obsessive, and deeply palpable examination of the wounds we mend from the trauma, the excruciating cruelty we inherit from our loved ones. Harrison deftly balances between moments of quiet, poignant reflection and unhinged brutality in this eerie shocker about possession, family, and secrets. An impressive and equally unforgettable work, Rachel Harrison is the new Queen of Horror.
-Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Rachel Harrison is on a bloody hot streak. Even if you’re a fan of her previous works, you are not prepared for what Play Nice has in store for you. Protagonist Clio might be her nastiest, messiest creation yet; Harrison is the master of writing characters you want to be best friends with but also hope you never meet.
-Liz Kerin, author of the Night’s Edge duology

Rachel Harrison is the author of CACKLE, winner of the Ladies of Horror Award for Best Novel and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and as an Audible Original. She lives in Western New York with her husband and their cat/overlord.

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