The Unhaunting

Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson delivers a chilling supernatural novel in which a mysterious house promises sanctuary—but hides generations of darkness within its walls.

“A house, itself, is nothing. It’s not a shelter until it is sheltering someone. A house is a housefire, waiting for its match. A house is a ghost story, waiting for its death.”

When Avery inherits the sprawling Abernathy House, he invites his closest friends to help restore it into the safe haven they’ve always dreamed of. Shantell, shaped by a lifetime of unimaginable loss—including the deaths of her father, brother, and mother—finds it difficult to believe that any place could truly offer peace. Yet from the moment they arrive, the house begins to transform them in unexpected ways, easing anxiety, breaking bad habits, and offering a sense of calm that feels almost too perfect.

As strange occurrences mount, Shantell, Avery, and Avery’s brother Tobias begin to uncover the home’s unsettling history. Built after the Civil War on a wish that no tragedy would ever touch it, Abernathy House has somehow kept that promise—but at a terrible cost. If no one has ever suffered within its walls, where did all the ghosts come from?

Blending gothic horror, historical reckoning, and psychological suspense, Abernathy House explores grief, legacy, and the hidden price of creating the illusion of safety. It is a haunting reminder that some places don’t merely harbor ghosts—they hunger to create them.