1212 Entertainment, who produced this year’s Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark adaptation, has acquired screen rights to the New York Times YA bestseller House of Salt and Sorrows and plans to adapt the novel into a TV series, reports Deadline.
The debut novel by Erin A. Craig is a gothic twist on the classic Grimm fairytale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” filled out into a fantastical YA horror and romance.
“The story follows a royal family of twelve sisters who are transported every night into an enchanted world of the gods filled with lavish costume balls and endless celebrations. When another of their kin dies mysteriously, the remaining sisters must band together and unravel the ancient curse on their family while defying their powerful father and cunning step-mother by continuing to explore the increasingly perilous playground of the gods for answers.”
“With all the trappings of ghosts and gods, portals to other worlds, costume balls and budding romance, ‘House of Salt and Sorrows’ delivers a constellation of narrative possibilities that we’re excited to bring to life,” said Joshua Long.
1212 plans to find a writer then set the series at a network or streamer.