Episode Thirteen

Fade to Black is a struggling paranormal reality show, and its thirteenth episode was meant to be its biggest: an overnight investigation of Foundation House, a derelict mansion in Virginia with a violently strange history. The married hosts—true-believer Matt Kirklin and his skeptic-scientist wife, Claire—take their small crew inside with cameras rolling. They never come out. What remains is the recovered footage, transcripts, journals, and texts that make up this book.

Assembled from that found material, Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen pieces together a night that slips from creaky-house theatrics into something genuinely, cosmically wrong, as the house opens onto places it should not. A mixed-media, found-footage horror novel about belief and doubt, marriage and obsession, and the terror of discovering the paranormal is real—and indifferent to whether you survive it.