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This chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)—reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me—follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic...

Every babysitter remembers a house that felt wrong — the locked door that shouldn't exist, the child who speaks to someone in the corner, the lullaby playing from a radio that isn't plugged in. The Babysitter's Notes is an anthology of those nights, each episode a self-contained story drawn from a tattered notebook Luna found in the crawlspace of a foreclosed home. The entries are dated, the handwriting shifts, and every tale orbits a single rule: never open the guest room closet after midnight. Some stories follow the sitter, some the child, and a few trace the thing that was already in the...