Once again, Josh Malerman has knocked it out of the park; his new book, Incidents Around the House, is a master class in terror. This is horror done so well that it’ll make your skin crawl. It’s a haunting exploration of the perils of childhood, and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come. . . . Highly, highly recommended.”—Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens
“This book is so original that it’s hard to describe: It deserves more than to be called chilling; it deserves more than to be characterized as a work rich in the infectious fears of childhood. These things are both true, but Josh Malerman is a creative genius, and in a child’s forthright voice he has written a masterwork of unadorned, existential terror.”—Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth
“This book does worse than stay with you—it stalks you. Page-turning, nerve-burning discomfort claws inside. Don’t read after dark. Incidents Around the House will make you a child again, and you’ll remember being small and afraid.”—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Light Most Hateful
“Josh Malerman is such an insidious architect: I call all of his haunted houses home. Incidents Around the House might just be his most devilish design yet. Not since Anne Rivers Siddons’s The House Next Door has the very blueprint of a possessed piece of property bled into my subconscious, reconfiguring where the house ends and the haunting truly begins. It turns out I’m the one who’s haunted now.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters
“You can’t read this one at night, turn out the lights, and go to sleep. This book has actual jump scares! Trust me: daytime only in a room with no closets.”—Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered
“I don’t believe Josh Malerman simply wrote Incidents Around the House. I believe he lit some candles, uttered an incantation in some forbidden arcane language, took parchment and quill in hand, slipped into a deep trance, and when he awoke, this book had appeared. Because that’s how it reads. This novel feels channeled, whispered onto the page by something unseen. Something malevolent. Incidents Around the House is a shocker, a modern horror classic that scared the absolute hell out of me.”—Jonathan Janz, author of Children of the Dark
A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box
To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?”
When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.
Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents' marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.
But Other Mommy needs an answer.
Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.
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To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?”
When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.
Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents' marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.
But Other Mommy needs an answer.
Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.
Incidents Around the House
A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box
To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?”
When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.
Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents' marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.
But Other Mommy needs an answer.
Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.
To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There's Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?”
When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.
Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents' marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.
But Other Mommy needs an answer.
Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940159561824 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 06/25/2024 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Sales rank: | 200,133 |
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