Dead Funny Valentine
When Lena Mortimer, a sharp-tongued stand-up comedian who’s made a career mocking romance, inherits a decrepit Victorian mansion in a sleepy coastal town, she thinks it’ll make the perfect writing retreat — and cheap housing. What she doesn’t expect is that her new home is haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandfather’s fiancée, a Victorian socialite who died mysteriously before her wedding.
But this ghost isn’t alone. The house seems alive — lights flicker in rhythm with laughter, and Lena begins hearing heckles from invisible voices during her rehearsals. Things get worse when she discovers her new neighbor, Dr. Eli Graves, a reclusive mortician with a PhD in parapsychology, who seems to know too much about her family’s dark history.
When Lena accidentally performs stand-up in front of a room full of spirits (who think she’s hilarious), she’s plunged into a supernatural love triangle: Eli, the living man she’s falling for despite her cynicism — and Julian, the sarcastic, charming ghost haunting her bedroom mirror.
As romance and horror collide, Lena must uncover the century-old curse binding the spirits to the mansion before it claims her as its next victim. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes: the curse might not be about death at all — it’s about love gone wrong… and laughter might be the only thing that can break it.
A darkly funny, romantic, and chilling ride through heartbreak, hauntings, and hysterics — Dead Funny Valentine is where The Haunting of Hill House meets Notting Hill.