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The House of Dies Drear begins with a dream. Thomas Small is in a pine forest running from a scary man with a white beard. When he wakes up he realizes he's in a car with his parents and his toddler twin brothers, Billy and Buster. It's Saturday, and it's his thirteenth birthday. The Smalls are driving away from their old home in North Carolina to their new home in Ohio. Their new house is historic – it used to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, the system of people and places that helped slaves escape to freedom back in the pre-Civil War era. It has hidden rooms and secret passageways. Thomas's father is really excited because he's a historian and teaches US Civil War history.
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