Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Del Sandeen!
Writes:
Horror! Don’t worry. I’m not here to jump scare you or gross you out. Instead, I’d rather crawl in during the night, when you’re lying in bed and about to drift off into sweet dreams…or nightmares. My latest novel, THESE WALLS REMEMBER, is about two feuding sisters who inherit a distant relative’s home in Savannah, Georgia, only to discover that they—and the home—are having a hard time letting go of the past.
About:
I’m a lifelong horror fan who never expected to write horror. As a kid, many of my Saturday afternoons were spent watching scary movies with my dad, and Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing quickly became familiar faces. I’m a U.S. Southerner, but British company Hammer Film Productions had a hold on me! When I’m not reading or writing, I’m learning Spanish, doing needlecrafts, putting together puzzles, enjoying the outdoors (especially the beach), or planning my next trip (ghost tours, anyone?).
For my ideal reader for my latest novel, THESE WALLS REMEMBER, we’ll get along well if you’re into:
• Atmospheric horror
• Feuding siblings and dysfunctional families
• Creepy Southern settings
• Eccentric neighbors
• History reaching forward into the present
• Houses that are more than four walls and a roof
What to expect if we’re compatible:
• Unsettling atmospheres
• Female protagonists in horror
• Celebration of Southern Gothic
• Diverse horror
• Messy family dynamics
• An undying love for Jordan Peele films
THESE WALLS REMEMBER by Del Sandeen
When two estranged sisters inherit a home possessed by the horrors of its dark past, they must work together to survive in this viscerally chilling Southern gothic novel from the critically acclaimed author of This Cursed House.
Do not go into the attic, the note warned.
But that’s exactly what sisters Mickie and Delilah do when they inherit a distant relative’s house in Savannah, Georgia. They intend to sell the property, divide the proceeds, and go their separate ways once and for all.
But 724 Hartford Street has other plans.
As the sisters learn about this house and its history, past wounds begin to fester and spill into the present: strange visions, memory lapses, unexplained accidents, and surreal echoes of the house’s previous inhabitants—some of whom disappeared after living in the home. The sisters suspect the residents of the sleepy Savannah neighborhood know more than they’re saying about what really happened there.
And then Delilah, once adamant about selling and never looking back, develops an uncanny attachment to the house, her personality changing in alarming ways. Mickie knows that she’ll have to pull her sister from the home’s clutches or they will both succumb to that which hungers in its walls.
Horror | Multicultural African-American [ Berkley, On Sale: August 18, 2026, Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9780593955666 / eISBN: 9780593955673 ]
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About Del Sandeen
Del Sandeen lives in Northeast Florida, where she works as a writer and copy editor. She is the recipient of the 2019 Diverse Writers Grant and the 2019 Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation. Her short fiction has appeared in in FIYAH: Speculative Literary Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Nightlight Podcast, and Magnolia, a Journal of Women’s Socially Engaged Literature Volume III. Her nonfiction has appeared in Allure, Uncanny, Gay magazine and ZORA. She’s the author of three young adult books: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Joined by Fate; Coping With Racial Profiling; and Maya Angelou: Writer and Activist.
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