
Incidents Around the House
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Delanie Nicole Gill
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Josh Malerman
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“Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”—Neil McRobert, Esquire
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
“This book is the monster that lives inside your closet.”—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE
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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Should have been a short story.
- By Drummerlp2000 on 09-23-22
By: Josh Malerman
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Unbury Carol
- A Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times...but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol's eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune and - when she lapses into another coma - plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her...alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol's dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved.
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Interesting Concept, Poor Execution
- By Susanna on 04-25-18
By: Josh Malerman
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It Waits in the Woods
- Creature Feature Collection
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The dense Michigan forest. Haunting wails. The clip-clop of demon hooves on a bridge to nowhere. It’s more than a tall tale to Brenda Jennings, whose sister disappeared in those woods one fateful night. Three years later, on a solo stakeout in the dark, Brenda goes in after her. She’s desperate for answers, and terrified to find what lies waiting on the other side of that bridge.
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Creepy and unexpected
- By TH on 10-04-23
By: Josh Malerman
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Bird Box
- A Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, Malorie has long dreamed of fleeing to a place where her family might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: 20 miles downriver in a rowboat blindfolded with nothing to rely on but Malorie's wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them....
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Don't look!
- By Lesley on 05-22-14
By: Josh Malerman
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Intercepts: A Horror Novel
- By: T.J. Payne
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation. His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind. They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation. All the test subjects went violently insane. But the research continued. Today it has been perfected. Almost perfected.
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☠ 💀 ☠ Tons of gore ☠ 💀 ☠
- By Sara on 10-28-19
By: T.J. Payne
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The Troop
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip - a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfre. The boys are a tight-knit crew. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school; Ephraim and Max, also well-liked and easygoing; then there’s Newt the nerd and Shelley the odd duck. For the most part, they all get along and are happy to be there - which makes Scoutmaster Tim’s job a little easier.
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Seriously Messed Up Gruesome Horror
- By Kim Venatries on 03-13-14
By: Nick Cutter
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Mean Spirited
- By: Nick Roberts, Crystal Lake Publishing, Crystal Lake Audio
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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An alcoholic teacher and father’s world spirals out of control when a former student is killed and he is left with her dog and the dark presence that follows it. Matt Matheny teaches during the day, drinks at night, and barely hides his functioning alcoholism from his veterinarian ex-wife, Lucy, and his six-year-old son, Mikey. His world spirals out of control when a former student is killed, and he's left with her dog, Conehead. But something isn't right with Conehead.
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Creepy and scary enough to freak me out!!!!
- By TAMMY on 07-27-24
By: Nick Roberts, and others
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The Queen
- By: Nick Cutter
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity’s been missing for over a month. Most people in town—even the police—think she’s dead. Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another…except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story.
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Yikes. Boring and forgettable.
- By Paintedsheep on 11-15-24
By: Nick Cutter
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Model Home
- A Novel
- By: Rivers Solomon
- Narrated by: Gabby Beans
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.
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This Book is Not a Fun Book
- By Julia Patrin on 05-08-25
By: Rivers Solomon
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Horror Movie
- A Novel
- By: Paul Tremblay
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Dani Martineck, Micky Shiloah, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.
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Good story, bad production.
- By bob on 07-11-24
By: Paul Tremblay
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Sleep Tight
- By: J. H. Markert
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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Father Silence once terrorized the rural town of Twisted Tree, disguising himself as a priest to prey on the most vulnerable members of society. When the police finally found his House of Horrors, they uncovered nineteen bodies and one survivor–a boy now locked away in a hospital for the criminally insane. Nearly two decades later, Father Silence is finally put to death, but by the next morning, the detective who made the original arrest is found dead. A new serial killer is taking credit for the murder and calling himself the Outcast.
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I realized I just wasted 11 hours of my life…
- By Amor Chavez on 09-13-24
By: J. H. Markert
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The Exorcist's House
- By: Nick Roberts
- Narrated by: Spencer Dillehay
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hills of West Virginia. Along with his wife and teenage daughter, the family uproots their lives in Ohio and moves south. They are initially seduced by the natural beauty of the country setting. That soon changes when they discover a hidden room in the basement with a well, boarded shut and adorned with crucifixes. Local legends about the previous owner being an exorcist come to light, but by then, all Hell has broken loose.
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I thought I was desensitized
- By Lisa A on 11-08-22
By: Nick Roberts
I know that Bella is a child with a child's mind, but I was done with her by the mid mark.
I think it was more how this was written that got me.
For example, if there was be a conversation between her parents but each line was followed by Mom said, Daddo said, etc. This was really bad if there was an argument.
It might have even been the way the child was made to sound. I'm guessing ai was used to make the narrator sound like a kid
All that though would have been livable if this was scary and had a better ending.
Nothing really happened until the end, nothing really scary happened until the end, and once again Josh wrote a story with an ending that did not really have an ending.
All in all, this was middling.
Omg, please no more Bella...
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it was different
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Really scary!
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surprised ending caught me off guard. couldn't stop listening.
kept me guessing
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Great read!
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the child's creepy voice
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Definitely creepy
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Creepy
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Narration was incredible, story was so good
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the performance is decent. would have been better if I'd slowed it down, but when i realized that, I was too far in and it would have taken me out of the listening experience more than the digitalization robotic voice. story was decent, more drama-horror than horror-drama.
alright story, better performance
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