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House of Hollow
335 questions & answers with page numbers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the author of House of Hollow? | Krystal Sutherland cover |
| How old was Iris when she realized she was strange? | ten 1 |
| What did a woman do at midnight to Iris Hollow when she was ten years old? | She came in through her bedroom window and cut off a lock of her hair and ate it. 1 |
| What did all the Hollow sisters have at the base of their throats? | A hook shaped scar 1 |
| What was Iris’s middle sister’s name? | Vivi 1 |
| What was Iris’s oldest sister’s name? | Grey 1 |
| What did Grey do to the woman, crazy on amphetamines, that calmed her down? | She kissed her 1 |
| How old was Iris when she had her sisters disappeared? | Seven 2 |
| What did Vivi do to the man who tried to pull her into his car when she was fifteen because he thought she was an angel? | She broke his jaw and knocked out two of his teeth 3 |
| Why was the teacher Grey hated fired? | He pressed her against a wall and kissed her neck in front of the class. 3 |
| What did the pretty popular girl who bullied Iris do in front of the school at an assembly? | She shaved her own head 3 |
| What did Vivi and Grey do while the girl who bullied Iris shaved her head publicly? | Grey winked at her, Vivi grinned in delight 3 |
| What color eyes and hair did all the Hollow sisters have? | Black eyes, white hair 3 |
| Which of the Hollow sisters cut school a lot? | Vivi 4 |
| How old were Grey and Vivi when they left home? | Grey was seventeen, Vivi was fifteen 5 |
| What school subjects did Iris love? | Science and geography, and she was naturally good at math. 5 |
| What did Iris want more than anything else? | To be normal and unremarkable 5 |
| What magazine featured Grey on the front with the caption, The Secret Keeper? | Vogue 6 |
| What was the caption underneath the photo of Grey on the cover of Vogue? | The Secret Keeper 6 |
| What did Grey have on her head in her cover photo on Vogue Magazine? | Antlers 6 |
| How did journalists always describe Grey Hollow? | ethereal 7 |
| Why did Iris think of Grey as ‘earthy’? | Grey felt most at home in the woods and was good at growing plants. 7 |
| What grew in through the window of Grey’s bedroom and coiled around her fingers when she was young? | The wisteria vines 7 |
| Why did Grey wood smoke her fabric before it was cut to make clothing? | So it smelled like forest fires 7 |
| Where were secret messages hand-stitched? | In the lining of all of the gowns Grey designed. 7 |
| What things did celebrities report finding in clothing designed by Grey Hollow? | Rolled-up paper, pieces of engraved animal bone, precious gems, runic symbols written in invisible ink, and little vials of perfume that cracked open when the person wearing the clothes moved. 7 |
| What was the name of the perfume Grey Hollow designed? | Hollow 8 |
| Why did Iris put the Vogue magazine with Grey on the front under her pillow? | So her mom wouldn’t find it and burn it in the kitchen sink. 8 |
| Where did the Hollows live? | Hampstead Heath in London 8 |
| What did Iris do each morning? | She went running. 8 |
| What was the name of Mrs. Hollow? | Cate 8 |
| What did Cate Hollow do for a job? | She worked as a nurse at the emergency room at Royal Free Hospital. 8 |
| How did Cate Hollow’s parents die when she was pregnant with her oldest daughter, Grey? | In a car accident 9 |
| How were Cate Hollow’s parents able to buy the big house in Hampstead Heath? | Property prices were very low during World War II 9 |
| In which room was Iris’s favorite photo of their home in Hampstead Heath, taken in the sixties? | The kitchen 9 |
| What horrible story that happened to Adelaide Fairlight, Cate’s mother, did no one speak of? | Her three stillborn births 9 |
| Where did Vivi and Grey plan to meet before Vivi’s music gig and wanted Iris to cut class and come to? | Camden 11 |
| Where did Iris’s usual running path take her? | Through the fields of Golders Hill Park 11 |
| What did Iris see while she was on her run after a pigeon flew into her face and made her fall into the mud? | A shirtless man wearing a horned skull who smelled like smoke and wetness 12 |
| What kind of car did Cate Hollow drive? | A red Mini Cooper 14 |
| What was the name of the Hollow’s cat? | Sasha 14 |
| What did Cate Hollow do every winter? | She hired a private investigator to try to find out what had happened to her three daughters. 15 |
| How did Iris wear her hair? | In two braids 15 |
| What smell would always remind Iris of her mother? | Cornstarch powder from latex gloves and other people’s blood 16 |
| What had been Mr. Hollow’s first name? | Gabe 16 |
| Who had given Iris, Vivi, and Grey the matching gold heart pendants they wore around their necks before they went missing? | Their paternal grandparents who lived in Scotland. 16 |
| How had the three Hollow sisters changed physically from before to after they went missing? | They had all been dark haired with blue eyes, and now they were white haired with black eyes, they never gained weight but were always hungry, and they smelled like milk and wet earth. 18 |
| What had Gabe Hollow done for work? | He was a carpenter 18 |
| What had been Gabe Hollow’s hobby? | Pottery 18 |
| What did Cate Hollow love to eat? | honey 19 |
| How tall were each of the Hollow sisters? | Five eleven 19 |
| What did Grey say when Iris told her it was dangerous to walk alone in the dark? | She said it was her that was the thing in the dark. 20 |
| What did Vivi do in an attempt to escape her beauty? | Shaved her head, pierced her skin, and had FUCK OFF tattooed on her fingers 20 |
| What instrument did Vivi Hollow play? | Bass guitar 20 |
| What did Iris find in her mom’s drawer when she went to put the family photograph? | Police files about the three girls’ disappearance in Scotland. 21 |
| Why did two police officers refuse to be in the same room with the three Hollow sisters after they returned? | They had nightmares after taking their statements 21 |
| What kind of flowers were found in the Hollow sisters’ hair when they returned? | Unidentifiable hybrids, maybe pyrophytes 21 |
| What kind of dogs reacted to the Hollow sisters even days after they returned? | Cadaver dogs 21 |
| What did Gabe Hollow tell the police about his three daughters after they returned? | Their eyes had changed and their baby teeth had grown back in places where they had been missing. 21 |
| What did Iris find growing out of the paper of the photograph of Grey taken when she was eleven years old? | Two living, bad smelling white flowers coming out of her eyes 22 |
| Where did Iris recognize the white flowers she saw growing out of the photo of Grey? | Grey had used the flower as a pattern and embroidered it on many of her clothing designs 24 |
| What did the white flowers smell like? | Raw meat and garbage 24 |
| What school did Iris Hollow attend? | Highgate Wood School for Girls 24 |
| What did Iris do before and after school? | She tutored a girl named Paisley in Python computer coding 24 |
| What did Paisley tell Iris she heard about her? | That she was a witch 25 |
| What did Paisley tell Iris she heard that Vivi and Grey had been expelled for? | Sacrificing a teacher to the devil in n the auditorium 25 |
| What did Iris tell Paisley she was, rather than a witch? | A mermaid 25 |
| What happened when Iris tried to dye her hair darker? | It turned back to white. 25 |
| Why wouldn’t Paisley’s parents let her read Harry Potter? | They were ultra religious 26 |
| What did Jennifer Weir and her friends watch during her sleepover birthday party? | All three of the Conjuring movies 26 |
| What was the name of the girl who had bullied Iris and then shaved her head in front of the school? | Justine Khan 27 |
| What game got Iris into trouble while she was at a birthday sleepover party? | Spin the Bottle 27 |
| What was the name of the venue where Vivi was playing at that Jennifer Weir bought tickets to? | The Camden Jazz Cafe 27 |
| Who did Jennifer Weir really want to meet at the Camden Jazz Cafe? | Grey Hollow 27 |
| What did Jennifer Weir and Justine Khan call themselves together? | JJ 27 |
| What things did Justine do to Iris when she was bullying her? | Wrote ‘witch’ on her locker in blood, put dead birds in her backpack, and sprinkled broken glass over her lunch 27 |
| What book was Iris reading in English class? | Frankenstein 28 |
| What was Iris’s English teacher’s name? | Mrs. Thistle 28 |
| What did Iris see through the window of her English class? | The man in the bull skull 28 |
| Why did teenage girls start carving half-moon shapes into their necks? | Grey’s popularity made the look trend as a fashion accessory 31 |
| What did Vivi cover her hooked scar on her neck with? | A wisteria tattoo 31 |
| What was Iris’s reaction to the smell of the perfume called Hollow that Grey designed? | It made her gag. 32 |
| What was Iris’s passcode on her phone? | 16 (Grey’s birthday), 29 (Vivi’s birthday), and 11 (her own birthday) 32 |
| What did Mrs. Thistle always call Vivi, even though it wasn’t her name? | Vivienne 33 |
| What places did Vivi love going to in London? | Guitar shops on Denmark Street, vintage shops in Camden, and Flamin’ Eight Tattoo Studio in Kentish Town 34 |
| Where did Vivi and her band tour in Europe? | Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic 35 |
| What had Iris done after Grey had broken her pinkie? | She got a hammer and shattered her own pinky. 35 |
| What was the name of the German woman in Vivi’s band who sung like Janis Joplin? | Candace 35 |
| What was the name of the Danish drummer in Vivi’s band? | Laura 35 |
| What was the name of Vivi’s favorite pub in London that was named after the 18th century muse and mistress, Emma Hart? | Lady Hamilton 36 |
| What was Vivi’s first tattoo? | George Romney’s painting, Emma Hart as Circe 36 |
| What was the name of Vivi’s band? | Sisters of the Sacred 37 |
| What had the nightclub/live music venue, the Camden Jazz Cafe, been in the past? | A Barclays Bank 37 |
| What was the name of Grey’s boyfriend? | Tyler Yang 39 |
| What was the name of the club Jennifer asked about where she said Grey and Tyler always went? | Cuckoo 39 |
| What question did Vivi ask Jennifer Weir before she told her to get back in line for the show like everyone else? | If she could name one song, and what the name of her band was 39 |
| What was the real reason Jennifer Weir came to the Sisters of the Sacred show at the Camden Jazz Cafe? | She wanted to see Grey Hollow and Tyler Yang 39 |
| How many followers did Grey Hollow have as a supermodel? | 98 million 41 |
| How did Iris know that Grey was actually in love with Tyler Yang when they met at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague? | She smelled softer 41 |
| What strange thing happened at the Sisters of the Sacred show at the Camden Jazz Cafe? | Vivi suddenly stopped playing and stared out into the crowd because she saw the man wearing a bull skull on his head. 43 |
| What is the name of the entertainment section of London where Grey had an apartment? | Leicester Square 45 |
| What is the name of the big ferris wheel in London by the Thames River? | The London Eye 46 |
| Why didn’t Grey’s apartment feel like her? | It was clean, organized, and sterile…she was wild and chaotic 46 |
| What did Vivi ask Grey to have in her apartment? | A library 47 |
| What did Iris ask Grey to have in her apartment? | Black and white chessboard floors in the kitchen and bathrooms like she had in the Sims 4 game Iris played. 47 |
| What did the woman at the Cuckoo Club tell Vivi and Iris about the man who was asking about Grey? | He smelled like death and burning 49 |
| Why did the hostess at the Cuckoo Club let Vivi and Iris into Tyler Yang’s private party? | Vivi put her finger on the woman’s lips and basically hypnotized her. 50 |
| What did Tyler Yang do for a career? | He was a Korean British model 51 |
| What were the sexual orientations of the three Hollow sisters? | Grey was straight, Vivi was gay, and Iris was bisexual 52 |
| What happened when Iris kissed Justine at the sleepover party? | Justine went wild and bit Iris’s lip and Iris had to fight her off. 52 |
| Why did Tyler Yang think Vivi and Iris were at the Cuckoo Club? | He thought Grey had sent them to apologize to him for her. 54 |
| What was so special about Tyler Yang? | He was not susceptible to the Hollow girls’ hypnotic spells 55 |
| What did Tyler Yang tell Vivi and Iris about Grey? | She was a terrible girlfriend who disappeared for days at a time. 55 |
| What did Tyler Yang tell Vivi and Iris about Grey’s apartment? | It was creepy and filled with weird, magical things 56 |
| What did Cate say when Iris called her mama? | She told her to please not call her that, she didn’t like it. 59 |
| What is the subway in London called? | The Tube 60 |
| How did the three Hollow sisters sleep when they were children? | With a finger resting on one another’s pulse points 63 |
| What was Vivi’s and Cate’s relationship like? | They teased each other in a sweet, silly way 65 |
| What did Iris see Grey do when she snapped the last time at their mom, Cate, after she came home drunk? | She put her hands around Cate’s throat, forced her against the wall, and whispered something in her ear. 66 |
| What did Cate do after Grey forced her against the wall and whispered in her ear? | She slapped her and told her to get the ruck out of her house and never come back. 66 |
| What did Gabe Hollow ask Iris, when he came in at night while she was going to sleep? | Who are you, what are you 66 |
| What did Iris find in her backpack printed on the folded paper? | Three women burning at the stake with their faces photoshopped to look like Iris, Vivi, and Grey 68 |
| What did Cate tell Iris about the three sisters’ births? | They were all born during storms — Grey a lightening storm, Vivi a thunderstorm, and Iris was a storm at sea 69 |
| On what holiday did the three Hollow girls disappear in Edinburgh, Scotland? | New Years Day 70 |
| For how long were the Hollow sisters missing? | One month exactly 70 |
| What was the only thing the Hollow sisters had with them when they reappeared naked in Edinburgh? | An antique folding hunting knife 70 |
| How old was Grey when the sisters disappeared? | eleven 71 |
| What conspiracy theories existed in regard to the disappearance of the Hollow sisters? | Alien abduction, parental hoax, of fairy changelings 71 |
| What is the name of the psychiatric condition in which a person believes someone else has been replaced by an identical imposter? | Capgras delusion 71 |
| What happened to Gabe Hollow after the three girls reappeared? | He was in and out of psychiatric institutions and finally killed himself two years after the incident. 71 |
| Where did Grey first move when she left home? | Into a one bedroom apartment in Hackney with three other girls. 71 |
| How long did it take Grey to become the highest earning supermodel in the world? | Two years. 72 |
| What was the name of Grey Hollow’s design company? | House of Hollow 72 |
| Where was the Somerton man found dead in 1948 with a scroll of paper sewn into his pants pocket? | Australia 72 |
| What does tamám shud mean in Persian? | finished 72 |
| Where had the word, tamám shud , been torn from and sewn into the Somerton man’s pocket? | The last page of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám 72 |
| What did Grey tell the journalist when he asked her if she remembered what happened to them? | She remembered everything but he wouldn’t believe her if she told him. 72 |
| What was Cate Hollow doing in the second or two it took for her daughters to disappear? | She kissed her husband, Gabe, on the cheek when the New Year’s fireworks went off. 73 |
| What did Cate Hollow say was the only thing strange in the street after the girls disappeared? | A handful of fall leaves and white flowers on the stoop of a house that had burned down the previous month. 74 |
| What was the first true memory Iris had of her mother? | When they reappeared a month after disappearing and her mother held her and rocked her while she cried. 75 |
| What were the three Hollow sisters able to do with each other, no matter how far apart they were? | Sense one another, and find each other. 76 |
| What did Vivi find on the bottom of Grey’s mattress in her childhood bedroom? | Runes hand-embroidered in emerald thread 77 |
| What did Iris find inside a curtain rod in Grey’s childhood bedroom? | An annotated page torn from a book of Emily Dickinson poetry 77 |
| What did Iris and Vivi fiend under the floorboards in Grey’s childhood bedroom? | A dried white flower, an antique hunting knife, and a brass key with a note attached with an address in Shoreditch 78 |
| What was written on the note attached to the key under the floorboards in Grey’s childhood bedroom? | An address in Shoreditch, yesterday’s date, and a message to Iris and Vivi telling them she might already be dead and asking them to find the door and save her. 79 |
| What did Jon and Arya say in Game of Thrones that Grey say to Vivi and Iris about the hunting knife? | Stick ‘em with the pointy end 79 |
| What was the passcode to Grey’s apartment building in Shoreditch? | 162911, their birthdates and same code to their phones 81 |
| What did Iris do one summer in France for two months? | She lived one hour behind Grey when Grey was 14 and Iris was ten. 81 |
| What did Vivi and Iris find in Grey’s apartment in Shoreditch? | Terrariums with carnivorous plants, crystals, animal bones, feathers, preserved animals, books, and strange taxidermy, also Vivi’s library and Iris’s checkerboard floor. 83 |
| Who is the author of A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magick? | Lisa Peschel 85 |
| What happened when Vivi pulled the cord to the ceiling panel in the walk-in closet of Grey’s apartment? | A dead body of a man fell out with three runes written on his chest in blood and his throat slashed. 85 |
| What strange thing was happening to the corpse that fell out of Grey’s apartment ceiling? | White flowers were growing out of his mouth, nose, and eyes 86 |
| What did the man with the bull’s skull on his head do when he discovered the dead man’s body in Grey’s apartment? | He piled Grey’s things on top of him and set them all on fire. 88 |
| What did the dead man and the man with the bull’s skull on his head have in common? | Runes written in blood down their torsos 88 |
| What was the name of Grey’s made-up place between life and death where people went if they couldn’t let go? | The Halfway 89 |
| How did someone fall into the Halfway? | They fell through a broken door 90 |
| What was Vivi able to grab from Grey’s apartment before they escaped from the bull skull man? | Grey’s leather-bound journal and drawings 92 |
| What did Iris feel was familiar in the picture of the old house with a piece of tartan on the front gate? | The fabric looked like it was from the coat she was wearing on the day they disappeared. 94 |
| Whose handwriting did Iris recognize in the leather journal they saved from Grey’s apartment? | Gabe Hollows, their father 94 |
| How had Iris been named? | It was Gabe’s mother’s favorite flower. 95 |
| What conclusion did Gabe Hollow come to about his daughters? | They were dead. 97 |
| How old was Iris when she lost her two front baby teeth on a candy cane? | Seven years old 98 |
| What nickname did Gabe give to Iris because she as so clingy? | My little leech 98 |
| What is the name of the medical condition that turns someone’s hair white overnight? | Marie Antoinette syndrome 99 |
| What is the name of the medical condition, caused by blunt trauma, that causes the absence of an iris in the eye? | aniridia 99 |
| How did Grey dot her i’s? | With little pink hearts 101 |
| Where had Mary Byrne gone missing on New Year’s Eve, becoming Grey’s obsession? | Bromley-by-Bow in London 101 |
| Where were the four photos around Bromley-by-Sea taken before their father’s funeral that Vivi and Iris found in Grey’s journal? | The Greenway, a footpath and bike freeway through London, the metal footbridge over West Hm Station, and the House Mill on Three Mills Island 102 |
| What was inside the basement of the House Mill on three Mills Island? | A freestanding stone wall with an arched doorway in the middle 102 |
| What was all over the surface of the stone wall with the arched doorway in the basement of the House Mill on Three Mills Island? | White flowers 102 |
| What did most of Grey’s journal contain? | Sketches of ruined doors with their locations written beneath them 103 |
| What did Iris pull out of the wound on Vivi’s arm? | A white flower 105 |
| Where did they hold the press conference to announce that Grey was missing? | An event room in the Lanesborough 108 |
| Why did Gabe Hollow feel personally responsible for what happened to Grey, Vivi, and Iris? | He was the one who wanted to go to Scotland for Christmas and New Years. 109 |
| Why did Cate Hollow feel personally responsible for what happened to Grey, Vivi, and Iris? | She was the one who wanted to go waking through the streets of Old Town at midnight to see the fireworks on New Years Eve 109 |
| What did Gabe and Cate make a pact to do if their three daughters were dead? | Kill themselves 111 |
| How did Gabe and Cate Hollow get enough money to send all three of their daughters to private school? | They got paid out-of-court settlements by newspapers that had accused them of being responsible for the disappearance of their girls. 111 |
| What did Iris find when she ripped up the velvet House of Hollow dress she wore to the press conference about Grey’s disappearance? | A little piece of paper written by Grey that said, I’m a girl made of bread crumbs, lost alone in the woods - GH 113 |
| What did Grey read aloud to Vivi and Iris every night for one year? | The Chronicles of Narnia 113 |
| What punk bands had Grey loved to listen to? | The Smiths and the Pixies 113 |
| What poster did Grey have tacked above her bed? | Telltale hand palmistry guide 114 |
| Why did Cate refuse to tell Iris what Grey had whispered to her that made her hate her? | She said it would break her heart to tell her. 115 |
| What did Tyler Yang mean when he said that Grey was Gone Girling him? | He thought she was faking her disappearance 117 |
| What did the teacher who got fired for kissing Grey in front of the class say about what he had done? | Grey whispered in his ear and made him do it. 117 |
| What happened to Tyler Yang’s little sister, Rosie, when she was seven and Tyler was five? | She drowned while on a family vacation 120 |
| Whose name did Tyler yell when he ran into Iris’s bedroom? | Yulia Vasylyk 122 |
| What did Tyler Yang call Grey’s two sisters? | Little Hollows 122 |
| Who was Yulia Vasylyk? | A 19 year old Ukrainian woman who went missing for one week 123 |
| Where was Yulia Vasylyk found after one week of being missing? | Wandering barefoot late at night near her Hackney apartment 123 |
| How did Grey know Yulia Vasylyk? | They were roommates in a one-bedroom Hackney apartment 123 |
| What did the former model, Yulia Vasylyk, do for a career? | She was a makeup artist and hairstylist 124 |
| Where did Tyler, Vivi, and Iris go to talk to Yulia Vasylyk? | A warehouse in Spitalfields 125 |
| What did Yulia Vasylyk do when Vivi came near her, asking her to help them? | She told her not to do that vile thing to her and called her manipulative, just like her sister, Grey. 126 |
| How did Yulia Vasylyk describe Grey Hollow? | Beautiful, secretive, quiet, and weird 127 |
| What weird hobby did Grey Hollow have that she was very talented at? | taxidermy 128 |
| How did Yulia Vasylyk get trapped in the Halfway? | She followed Grey because she was obsessed with her. 128 |
| Why did Yulia Vasylyk feel her mind was messed up by following Grey into the Halfway? | After she came back, she only dreamed about dead people 129 |
| Where in Hackney was the apartment owned by Yulia Vasylyk’s parents where she and Grey lived? | Near London Fields 129 |
| Why couldn't Yulia Vasylyk’s parents ever rent their apartment to anyone after Grey moved out? | Everyone who walked around inside it felt sick. 129 |
| What did Yulia Vasylyk say the police left out of the report about when they found her? | She was naked and had bloody runes written on her body in Grey’s blood. 130 |
| What was the name of Iris’s favorite park in London in the spring? | London Fields 130 |
| Where were Vivi and Iris led to when they walked in London Fields by sensing Grey’s presence? | A row of houses near the train tracks 131 |
| When had Grey lived in the small house near the train tracks by London Fields? | When she was 17 years old, before becoming a famous model. 133 |
| What had Grey cooked for herself and her sisters every Sunday morning? | Waffles, scrambled eggs, and freshly squeezed orange juice 133 |
| What did Iris find near one wall in the bedroom of the small house near the train tracks by London Fields that hinted at Grey’s presence? | A line of ants, a bad feeling, and newer wallpaper than in the other areas of the house 134 |
| Why did the wall in the small house near the train tracks by London Fields cave in and smell horrible? | It was covered in the little white Carrion flowers 135 |
| What did Vivi say about Carrion flowers? | They smelled like rotting flesh to attract flies and bugs 135 |
| What are pyrophytes? | Plants that have adapted to tolerate or thrive on fire. 136 |
| In Grey’s fairy tale, how did someone get into the in-between place? | By walking through a broken door 136 |
| What was Iris’s favorite book when she was a child? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 141 |
| What did Iris and Vivi find behind the bookshelf they tipped over and broke? | A hidden wooden doorframe with carrion flowers all over it 142 |
| What did Grey say to Iris when she finally found her? | Run, he’s coming 143 |
| What was the name of the doctor who cared for Grey when Iris and Vivi found her and took her to the hospital? | Dr. Silva 146 |
| What did Grey teach Iris to do on the night her pet guinea pig died? | To meditate 147 |
| Why did Grey once bite Vivi's arm? | To punish her for biting Iris’s arm. 147 |
| What did Dr. Silva say was wrong with Grey? | She was having a psychotic episode, believing she was kidnapped and dragged through a door into another world by a beast with horns, and that her sisters were in danger. 147 |
| Where did Vivi go when she left home two weeks after Grey? | She took a midnight bus to Paris, France, and then traveled east for three years playing in clubs 151 |
| What did Iris and Grey do on the night Iris snuck out of room at night for the first and only time? | They went to a pub in Golders Green 152 |
| Why did Iris tell Grey she couldn’t leave Cate? | She was all Cate had left. 152 |
| What TV show did Cate and Iris like to watch together? | Dr. Who 154 |
| What did Cate and Iris collect in the marshland of London? | Knotweed to make jam, elderflower and nettle to make summer cordial 154 |
| What freaked Iris out when she touched the scar on her neck? | She felt something move 156 |
| What animal crawled out of the wound in Iris’s neck? | An ant 157 |
| What did Iris find below her skin? | A second layer of skin. 158 |
| How did Gabe Hollow die? | He hung himself in the entranceway of their house 162 |
| What did Grey do with the suicide note in Gabe Hollow’s pocket? | She tore it up and threw it out the window. 162 |
| What did Iris read in Gabe Hollow’s suicide note after she collected the pieces of it and put it back together? | I didn’t want this. 162 |
| What did Grey do to the driver of the car to make him drive her, Iris, Vivi, and Tyler away from the hospital? | She kissed him and then whispered in his ear. 167 |
| What happened when the man driving Grey, Tyler, Vivi, and Iris away from the hospital when they were a little past Northampton? | They ran out of gas. 169 |
| Where was Iris the second time someone kissed her? | Backstage after Grey’s first House of Hollow catwalk at Paris Fashion Week. 172 |
| What did Grey tell the man who had assaulted Iris at Paris Fashion Week? | She told him to go home and kill himself slowly and painfully, but then she just told him to go away and never touch someone without their consent again after Iris begged her to take mercy on him. 175 |
| Why did Grey date Tyler? | She loved being near someone who wasn’t prey to her power, someone she couldn't hypnotize. 177 |
| What did Iris dig out of the back of Grey’s throat? | Rotten leaves, mildew, carrion flowers and ants 179 |
| Where did the man drive Grey, Tyler, Vivi, and Iris? | To Edinburgh in Scotland where the three girls had once gone missing. 179 |
| What did Vivi see when they got to the house in Edinburgh? | A little girl pointing a shotgun at them. 180 |
| Who were all the unopened envelopes in the house in Edinburgh addressed to? | Adelaide Fairlight, the Hollow sisters’ grandmother, and the name Grey used to check into hotels to hide her identity. 182 |
| What ingredients were in the concoction the girl made to heal Grey in Edinburgh? | Vinegar, salt, anise, and wormwood 183 |
| Why did the little girl in the house in Edinburgh give Iris a piece of material soaked in the concoction she made to Heal Grey? | For Iris to put on the wound on her own neck 185 |
| Why did the girl say the bull skull mask man would always be able to find Grey? | He had her blood. 185 |
| Why did Tyler and Rosie swim so far from the shore? | They had dared each other to swim farther out. 189 |
| For how many minutes did Tyler have not heartbeat? | Three minutes 189 |
| According to the Greek myth, what is a minotaur? | A flesh-eating monster trapped in a labyrinth by Daedalus, the master craftsman. 193 |
| In which of Grey’s favorite books did a minotaur appear? | Dante’s Inferno 193 |
| Which famous painter included a minotaur in several of his etchings? | Pablo Picasso 193 |
| What did Wikipedia say an ox-head was? | A guardian of the Underworld in Chinese mythology 193 |
| What did ox-head and horseface, two guardians of the realm of the dead in Chinese mythology, do to people? | They captured human souls and dragged them to hell. 193 |
| What is the name of the Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice? | Moloch 193 |
| Who is said to have eaten his children in Carthage? | Cronus 193 |
| What is the name of the artist who painted Saturn Devouring his Son? | Peter Paul Rubens 194 |
| What was the name of the little girl in the house in Edinburgh? | Agnes Young 194 |
| For how long did the newspaper article say Agnes young, daughter of Phillip and Samantha Young, been missing? | Five days 194 |
| How old was Samantha Young when she died? | ninety-six 194 |
| What did Iris notice about the mugs in the house in Edinburgh that she made tea in? | They were stamped on the bottom, made by Gabe Hollow. 198 |
| Where did Agnes Young come from? | Grey found her in the in-between but she had already been there too long. 199 |
| Why did Agnes say some humans got stuck in the liminal place where all things passed through when they died? | They couldn’t let go or were mourned too deeply by those they left behind. 199 |
| What was the name of the old folk song Agnes Young mentioned about w woman who died and her lover mourned her so hard she couldn't move on. | The Unquiet Grave 199 |
| Where had Agnes Young been playing when she stumbled into the in-between place? | In the old chapel ruins in Holyrood Park at sunset. 200 |
| What made the place in Old Town a place where someone could fall into the in-between place? | A house had burned down on only a door frame remained – a door that used to go somewhere, but now led somewhere else. 200 |
| What did Agnes Young say about beauty in nature? | It was often a warning or a disguise. 200 |
| What did the rune shaped with a line with three prongs at the bottom in the shape of an inverted arrow mean? | Death 201 |
| What did the rune shaped like a capital M mean? | passage 201 |
| What did a line with three prongs at the top mean? | Life 201 |
| Why was the man chasing Grey and the others limited to being able to only cross temporarily using Grey’s blood and the runes? | He was dead. 201 |
| What did Agnes say when Iris quoted to her, knowledge is power? | Ignorance is bliss. 202 |
| Who was killed in the house in Edinburgh by the bull skull mask wearing man? | Agnes Young 204 |
| How did Iris learn to load a shotgun? | She watched a YouTube video 209 |
| What church did Iris and Tyler go to find Grey and Vivi? | Saint Giles’ Cathedral 209 |
| What marked the spot on a stone terrace to the right of the front door at the Saint Giles’ Cathedral? | A bronze plaque that said, ‘Here on this spot in January 2011, sisters Grey, Vivi, and Iris Hollow were found live and well after being missing for 31 days’ 210 |
| What happened to the freestanding doorway the three Hollow girls disappeared into? | It was demolished a few weeks after they were found. 210 |
| Why didn’t other people who stepped through the freestanding doorway the Hollow disappeared into disappear themselves? | They didn’t go through it during a liminal (in between) time like New Years Eve, dusk, or dawn 213 |
| What book features a character named Mr. Tumnus? | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe from the Chronicle of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 213 |
| What did Grey refuse to let the nurses in the hospital do to the three of them after they reappeared after being gone for 31 days? | Take their blood 214 |
| What did Grey do to Iris while she was being carried by their mom from the hospital after they reappeared after being missing? | She winked at her. 215 |
| What did Iris do to the redheaded woman who was sitting on a couch breastfeeding her baby in the house that was the site of the Hollow girls’ disappearance? | She hooked her finger into the woman’s mouth to take control of her and asked her where her sisters were. 217 |
| What was the name of the redheaded woman in the house that was the site of the Hollow girls’ disappearance? | Claire 217 |
| What did Claire’s grandmother warn her to stay away from when she was little? | Saint Anthony’s Chapel and the door. 218 |
| Where were the ruins of Saint Anthony’s Chapel located? | On a hill over a loch (lake) in Holyrood Park 218 |
| Why did Iris check her weather app on her phone to see the exact moment of sunrise at 7:21 am? | The veil between realms would be thinnest at that time, so she would be able to pass through the door and into the in-between 220 |
| How old was Iris the first and the second times she entered the land of the dead? | The first time she was seven, the second time she was seventeen 221 |
| What was the first thing Iris noticed when she entered the land of the dead? | It smelled like smoke, wild animal, and rot 221 |
| What character names did Tyler mention who had gone into magical realms? | Dorothy (Wizard of Oz), Alice (Wonderland) and the Pevensie children (The Chronicles of Narnia) 222 |
| What did Vivi say about the sun in the in-between place? | It never set nor rose 223 |
| What did Tyler hope for when he was in the in-between with Iris? | To see his sister, Rosie, who had drowned when she was seven and he was five. 225 |
| What did Iris and Tyler see in the river in the in-between place? | Dead bodies 225 |
| What did Iris find tied around a tree branch in the in-between place? | A strip of red and black tartan 227 |
| What was the literary equivalent of the pieces of tartan fabric Iris found tied to tree branches in the in-between place? | Bread crumbs to find their way 228 |
| Who was the child sitting cross-legged on a mud island in the in-between place? | Rosie Yang, Tyler’s sister 231 |
| Why couldn't Tyler bring Rosie back home with him? | Because she actually died….she didn’t just wander into the in-between place 233 |
| What did Iris find when she pulled out the nail and pried out the board in the old house in the in-between? | A green tweed duffle, a Bordeau faux-fur jacket, and a red tartan coat, all of them with dried blood on them. 236 |
| What did Grey whisper to Iris when they reappeared in Edinburgh? | Forget this 236 |
| What was etched on the gravestone near the old house in the in-between? | Grey, Vivi, and Iris 237 |
| What was the identity of the man in the bull skull mask? | Gabriel Hollow 240 |
| Who helped convince Tyler to help Iris dig up the grave near the old house in the in-between place? | Rosie Yang 243 |
| What did it mean when Iris found the three dead bodies of children buried in the grave, one of them with a gold locket that said ‘Iris’ and missing two front baby teeth? | She realized that she was not really Iris Hollow 244 |
| Who were Eomma and Appa? | Tyler’s and Rosie’s parents 248 |
| What were the names of Tyler’s other two sisters? | Selena and Camilla 248 |
| What did Tyler’s sisters grow up and do for careers? | Lena was an architect and Camilla was a pediatrician 248 |
| Who named their daughter Rosie after Tyler’s sister, Rosie Yang? | Their sister, Camilla 248 |
| What finally happened to Rosie Yang in the in-between place? | Tyler let her go and her soul was able to move on. 249 |
| What tattoos did Tyler have? | Angels, flowers, and Grey’s face 251 |
| What did Tyler’s mother do for a career? | She was a doctor 251 |
| What did Tyler notice when he read Iris’s palm? | She had the same life line as Greys, two lines with a gap in the middle, like there was a before life and then a rebirth 251 |
| What did Iris carve with a knife into the tree in the in-between place where Tyler was sleeping? | Wait for me here. 254 |
| What did Iris use as breadcrumbs in the in-between so she could find her way back to Tyler? | Pieces of Tyler’s floral shirt 255 |
| What did Iris find in the in-between forest that meant Tyler had been taken against his will? | His new Nike sneakers 256 |
| What did Gabe Hollow intend to do to Iris, Vivi, and Grey in the in-between forest? | Burn them all at stakes 257 |
| What did Gabe Hollow do to Tyler which was the same thing that was done to his three daughters? | He took his skin and put it on so he would look like Tyler and trick Iris 260 |
| Why did Grey, Vivi, and Iris all have scars around their throats? | They had taken the skins of the real Grey, Vivi, and Iris Hollow and Grey stitched the hole up. 261 |
| Who made the grave near the old house in the in-between place? | Gabe Hollow when he buried his three daughters there after he killed himself. 261 |
| Instead of thinking, what would Grey do, what did Iris do to save herself and her sisters from Gabe Hollow in the forest? | She thought, what would Iris do, and she called him Papa 264 |
| What happened to Gabe after he allowed Iris to free her sisters? | His soul passed on 266 |
| Why did Grey refuse to go home with Vivi and Iris after Iris saved her from the fire? | She wanted to find Tyler, put his soul back into his own skin, and sew him up. 266 |
| What did Grey say aloud in the forest to bind Tyler so his soul couldn’t move on? | That she blamed herself for his death and bound him with her grief 266 |
| What did Grey tell Iris would happen if she ripped off her skin? | She would die. 270 |
| Why did the real Grey, Vivi, and Iris go into the in-between place when they were children and trust the voice that called to them and asked for help? | The girl in the forest was a little girl too 270 |
| What did someone have to do in order to escape the Halfway? | Become halfway – between alive and dead 271 |
| Why were the Hollow sisters always hungry? | Food could never sate their hunger or fill their emptiness because they were dead 272 |
| Why was Tyler unaffected by the Hollow girls’ powers? | He had been dead for a few minutes himself. 272 |
| Why did Grey keep going back to the Halfway after Gabe died? | To find out and remember what really happened to them. 273 |
| What did Grey do so that Yulia Vasylyk was able to come back from the Halfway? | She wrote runes in blood on her as a spell to create a gateway between death and life. 273 |
| Why did Grey bring Agnes Young back to the living world? | She was trying to make amends for what she did to the real Grey, Vivi, and Iris Hollow. 274 |
| What did Grey whisper into Cate’s ear before Cate slapped her and told her never to come back? | That she had killed her children and skinned them and killed her husband, and if she didn’t leave her alone she would skin her too. 276 |
| For how long had Iris been gone when she went back to Cate with four broken ribs? | Two weeks 278 |
| Why did Cate say she was able to stand Iris, even after she knew she wasn’t her real daughter, Iris? | She had been her daughter for the past ten years, and she said that she was much like her real Iris. 280 |
| What did Grey tell the police after she hypnotized them? | That she had been taken by a crazy stalker who had been in love with her and her sisters since they were children, and she said there was no need to take statements from her sisters. 281 |
| How old was Tyler when he died? | twenty 282 |
| At the end, what did Iris ask Cate to stop doing that had been a ritual with them for years? | Cate putting braids in her hair. 283 |
| What did Cate bury at the base of Gabe Hollow’s headstone? | The three strips of fabric Iris brought back from the Halfway that had been the real Grey’s, Vivi’s, and Iris’s 286 |
| What did Iris do to Justine Khan for the first time ever after she came back to school two weeks after she escaped from the Halfway? | She confronted her and threatened to control her if she bothered her any more. 287 |
| What kinds of mills had been in Three Mills Island beginning in Saxon times? | Flour mill, gunpowder mill, and gin distillery 289 |
| What place was a short walk from Three Mills Island? | Bromley-by-Bow 289 |
| Why did the tour guide say the basement of the mill wasn’t part of the tour? | There were protected Saxon ruins beneath the foundations. 290 |
| What kind of mills were the mills Iris and Vivi toured on Three Mills Island? | Tidal mills 291 |
| What did Iris find in the basement of the mill? | A freestanding door ruin from Saxon times 291 |
| Why did Iris and Vivi want to go to the mill and go through the freestanding door to get back to the Halfway? | To find Tyler 292 |
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