I really liked this!
The haunted house trope has been through a lot, and, even so, I think that this story was able to use it wisely.
Stories like
The Wizard of Oz,
The Last House on the Left, slashers like
Halloween and
Friday the 13th and
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and more recent stories like
The Blair Witch Project all depict people leaving their houses, doing immoral things, and being torn apart because of that. That’s why, in old horror movies, if you have sex you die—you disgusting degenerate! —and only the virgin,
The Final Girl, survives. The home was your refuge, your sanctuary. Evil always came from outside, like in
The Exorcist. Although we still see stories like this, like
MA or the
Wrong Turn reboot or
Midsommar, this is not the rule anymore. After the 2008 Subprime crisis, and with the always-growing numbers of homeless people in America, the house is not a safe place anymore. On the contrary. Therefore, came the
Paranormal Activity franchise,
The Conjuring,
Sinister,
The Cabin in the Woods,
Don’t Breathe,
HUSH,
The Lodge,
Hereditary,
Vivarium (which really looks like this story btw),
His House, and
You Should Have Left.
Dorothy is not safe in Kansas anymore. She may very well just stay in Oz.
And this story does a great job capturing this zeitgeist. Like the aforementioned
His House, that used the home trope to tell a story about war refugees in Europe,
Keeping House uses the trope to talk about domestic violence.
I like how subtle it is. We never know if she’s delirious or not. Reminded me of
The Turn of the Screw and
The Others.
I do have some issues though.
In their first night there, after they eat pizza takeout, all the dishes of the house appear in the sink, and she thinks, “Have I used this? I don’t remember. I must be tired”. WOW! How tired can someone be? That should have raised red flags immediately. Used dishes in your sink like that can only mean two things: ghosts or someone secretly living in the ventilation system.
I didn’t like that the story told us that all the women in her dreams may have lived in the house. It was unnecessary. That’s looking down on the reader, saying that we are dumb and need explanation for everything.
The teeth on the door frame, and the house having jaws were uncalled for. Felt like deus ex machina. It was unnecessary; she could have been kept in the house by many other means. It was also bad for the story, because it just destroys the ambiguity that was built in the other 99% of the story.
And I just got nerdy again.
P.S.: Funny that the writer and the narrator have the same surname and (I think) are not related.P.S. 2: In case you're wondering: yes, I watched/read all the stories mentioned above 
