son of magistrate
sent to a house for punishment
bunch of children upon entering house
old people in kitchen talking about the shinedown
main character, boy, and boy's sister have to find room in house and burn it and everyone inside it or something bad would happen
traveling through house, see many different weird rooms filled with horrible people doing horrible things (possible filler for history of house)
find a glass wall in a room and can see room that needs to be burned,
but the glass cannot be broken
(boy angrily throws lantern at glass, it explodes and the flames engulf the sister)
still alive, boy carries sister and they along with main character find the room,
it is filled with people.
boy starts fire, and sets himself and sister aflame
main character see's that the house is all evil.
he begins to burn down the entire house
him and all the other children escape in time
stand outside and watch the house burn.