Jake's mum walks upstairs one Monday morning and doesn't come back down...
“This time last week, the worst thing that could happen to me was my sister beating me up. Now I know I have a house that eats people. Because it ate half my family, and maybe it’s going to eat me.”
Jake Gibbon’s mum walks upstairs one Monday morning and doesn’t come down. Next his dad disappears too, leaving Jake and his irritable older sister, Julia, alone in the house. After the junk in Jake’s room comes alive and crawls into his bed, he suspects the house is out to get him. When a fake Julia appears, shuffling along the landing, with a slowly melting face and arms reaching for him, both kids realise it’s time to go.