THE HALLOW HOUSE
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On Halloween night in 1941, three young women are drawn to an abandoned house by a mysterious letter that reads only: Return the light.
Inside, they awaken an ancient memory that binds the living and the dead and discover that some houses don't just remember their ghosts... they wait for them.
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