The Unhaunting
- Published: 29 September 2026
- ISBN: 9781405996297
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
[The Space Between Worlds] Twisting, suspenseful and profound
Max Gladstone, co-author of the Hugo and Nebula-winning THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
[The Space Between Worlds] Johnson excels at contrasting lives of privilege and poverty
Guardian
[The Space Between Worlds] It remained two steps ahead of my imagination
The New York Times
A strong new voice
Sunday Times
A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at turns ferocious and poetic - and sometimes both at once
Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones
One of the most original, imaginative, and terrifying takes on the haunted house genre I've read. . . Johnson has written a novel of unfathomable crimes, privilege, and the buried traumas of our past that exposes both the horrors of the supernatural, and the ones that lurk in our mundane world. Once you start reading, you will not want to put it down
P. Djèlí Clark, award-winning author of Ring Shout
A brilliant, spellbinding tale of terror that deftly interrogates privilege and generational trauma while scaring your socks off. You’ve never seen a haunted house like this one before
Kylie Lee Baker, Sunday Times bestselling author of Japanese Gothic
The Unhaunting charts the liminal middle ground between Shirley Jackson and Toni Morrison, mapping out the unnerving terrain that exists within the bated breath between Micaiah Johnson’s beguiling words
Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters
Anxiety-inducing from start to twisty end, The Unhaunting kept me up all night! As only Micaiah Johnson can deliver, this ingenious spin on the haunted house story explores how privilege, much like Abernathy House, is as mesmerizing as it is cruel, and the price it exacts is nothing short of horrific. Come inside, if you dare
Victor Manibo, author of The Villa, Once Beloved