Lucy Ferris Opens a Door
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Lucy Ferris is a young witch living in the strange and sleepy town of Crow Hollow in eastern Washington. Locals urge visitors to stay away from the abandoned mansion on the edge of town, and something happened there in 1953 that nobody is supposed to talk about. When an eager would-be indie filmmaker conscripts Lucy and her best friend Dez into being part of his docu-horror opus, they find themselves mixed up in a decades-old mystery.
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