The Stranger Upstairs

In this gothic psychological debut, a social media superstar with a hidden background purchases a murder home to refurbish, but what's under the peeling wallpaper may surprise her.

Sarah Slade is making a fresh start. She's adamant that the makeover would help her attract a new audience on her popular lifestyle blog and divert her attention from her failing marriage. Black Wood House was the site of a graphic murder-suicide. She just acquired the notorious property.

But Sarah understands better than anybody that a fresh front is unable to hide every secret as she covers up the horrific history of the property. After that, the builders begin behaving strangely and having strange mishaps, and Sarah realizes she can no longer sleep in the bedroom with the bloody floor and put up with the eerie footfall coming from the attic.

Sarah starts to believe that her spouse, her neighbors, or maybe the home itself is trying to get her as ominous messages start popping up everywhere. Black Wood House seemed to become angry the more she renovates it.

Sarah's life is becoming more and more out of control with each second that goes by, and her sense of reality goes with it. Sarah Slade must be wondering whether it was all worth it, despite the fact that she clings tenaciously to the falsehoods she has made up to hide her own secrets. Or will this home be the last place she unravels?