A will can leave you money. This one leaves you a week.
In D. W. Gillespie's The Doll House , reviewed this week by Kirkus, Garrett's grandfather — the rich and famous author Burke Weathers — dies and leaves his family a condition instead of a gift: Garrett and his mother inherit only if they spend a week at Inkwell Point, the old man's house. Thirteen-year-old Garrett arrives, and it does not take long to learn why the locals have their own name for the place.
That is a middle-grade horror premise. It is also a fair description of what this week's literary news keeps circling. Reviews, translations, archives, and history desks all arrived at the same bargain from different directions: some stories are only available to people who agree to stay put.