John Maycumber

Anna's House John Maycumber

In 1953, 15 year-old Anna Holberg was on top of the world. With her four-and-one-half octave range singing voice, she amazed the music world and awed millions of fans. She was all over the radio, sold tens of millions of records, hosted two TV shows and sold out concerts across the country. And then one warm spring day in May 1953, she vanished: inside her own house. For nearly six decades, her house of sorrows has been vacant, boarded up and in a gradual state of decay, keeping its secrets behind steel plates where windows and doors once were. Speculation has sustained the mystery: what happened to the beautiful young girl with the otherworldly voice? Where did she go? Why has she never been found? Now, in the year 2010, an Anna-obsessed teenaged TV actor named Eddie Penchant is going to break into the creepy, dilapidated old house in an attempt to finally solve the mystery. Amongst the cobwebs and broken plaster walls lurks an unimaginable horror, determined to make Eddie's stay permanent and send him to the same fate as his idol. But it's not the only creature still creeping around in the dust and rot of Anna's house. Anna's House is a tale of horror, intermingled with a star-crossed romance, breaking the bonds of time itself. It's the story of two lost souls trapped inside a house haunted by a creature that makes certain that Anna's House keeps its secrets.