
The House of Last Resort
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The next high concept horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden.
Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild―selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It’s a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and Becchina is the home of Tommy’s grandparents, his closest living relatives. It feels like a romantic adventure, an opportunity the young couple would be crazy not to seize. But from the moment they move in, they both feel a shadow has fallen on them. Tommy’s grandmother is furious, even a little frightened, when she realizes which house they’ve bought. There are rooms in an annex at the back of the house that they didn’t know were there. The place makes strange noises at night, locked doors are suddenly open, and when they go to a family gathering, they’re certain people are whispering about them, and about their house, which one neighbor refers to as The House of Last Resort. Soon, they learn that the home was owned for generations by the Church, but the real secret, and the true dread, is unlocked when they finally learn what the priests were doing in this house for all those long years…and how many people died in the strange chapel inside. While down in the catacombs beneath Becchina…something stirs.
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They Lurk
- By: Ronald Malfi
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel, Amy McFadden
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Newly reissued from the "modern-day Algernon Blackwood" comes five terrifying collected horror novellas.
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While their short stories, they’re also non-ending stories
- By laurie j sousa on 12-05-23
By: Ronald Malfi
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No One Gets Out Alive
- By: Adam Nevill
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Darkness lives within.... Cash strapped, working for agencies and living in shared accommodation, Stephanie Booth feels she can fall no further. So when she takes a new room at the right price, she believes her luck has finally turned. But 82 Edgware Road is not what it appears to be.
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One of the most annoying books I have attempted to listen to in a long time.
- By James & Mary F on 11-08-15
By: Adam Nevill
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This House Is Haunted
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin's walls.
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Well Read - Not Very Scary, Had Promise
- By Dorothy on 03-24-14
By: John Boyne
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Death in Her Hands
- A Novel
- By: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate.
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Omg get ON with it
- By Nicole Dreyfus on 06-24-20
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Underhistory
- By: Kaaron Warren
- Narrated by: Lisa Armytage
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Pera Sinclair was nine the day the pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family's grand home, killing everyone inside. She was the girl who survived the tragedy, a sympathetic oddity, growing stranger by the day. Over the decades she rebuilt the huge and rambling building on the original site, recreating what she had lost, each room telling a piece of the story of her life and that of the many people who died, both before and after the disaster. And while she doesn't believe in ghosts, she's not above telling a ghost story or two to those who come to visit Sinclair House.
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This was so wonderfully Australian
- By Matt on 08-16-24
By: Kaaron Warren
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Small Town Horror
- By: Ronald Malfi
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Andrew Larimer has left his past behind. Rising up the ranks in a New York law firm, and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is settling into a new life far from Kingsport, the town in which he grew up. But when he receives a late-night phone call from an old friend, he has no choice but to return home.
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Am I reading IT or what
- By D Cook on 10-18-24
By: Ronald Malfi
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The Twisted Ones
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more - Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants...until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself.
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Thoughtful build to a chilling, exhilarating finale. Also, the dog lives.
- By selkie86 on 12-29-19
By: T. Kingfisher
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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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Fever House
- A Novel
- By: Keith Rosson
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion.
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Finished it - barely
- By Margaret Goldstein on 11-02-23
By: Keith Rosson
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- motherof2
- 11-13-24
Slow to start but good and creepy
Great narrators! I’m so glad I flipped to audio. The story is a bit slow to start but nice and creepy and gross after Part 1.
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- Elizabeth Pivaro
- 05-05-25
So fun & engaging!
Loved it! The end dragged a bit to me so it got 4/5 but def recommend if you’re looking for a fun spooky story
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- D. Stallard
- 06-15-24
Just Alright
As the title states the book was fine I guess. The ending left me wanting a bit more information about what actually happened. But other than that, it's fine.
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- derik
- 06-07-24
Great set up but failed to fully deliver
This book was 3 1/2 stars for me. The premise of the story was fantastic and there was great opportunity for a lot of supernatural action. However, I felt the action was mostly lacking until the end of this book. I also felt that the constant introspective denials and rationalizations were excessive and detracted from the pace of the story. That being said, I did enjoy the story. I just thought there was a missed opportunity to deliver more.
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- wendy happ
- 06-12-24
great story
loved this novel, interesting and new concept, the ending was brilliant. I would definitely read another from this author.
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- Molly Bennett
- 07-04-24
The description of the scenery.
Their Italian accents were hard to get through on the voice narration!
The story itself wasn’t as thrilling as I’ve previously expected from the author Christopher Golden. I was wishing for another book like his precious one, Road of Bones
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- Jen Hamilton
- 04-17-24
Phenomenal
Christopher Golden didn’t disappoint. Another creepy tale set in an interesting location. Golden alway finds a way to use the setting to amp up the creepy factor. This one puts us with a newly “imported” married American couple in Sicily Italy who fear their new dream home may be haunted. Chock full ghosts, priests, catacombs, natural disasters, possessions, religious lore, creepy old people and RATS! If you are creeped out by rats maybe stay away from this one. But wait, on second thought that’s the whole reason we read horror right? I think you’ll like this one.
I was a little thrown off by the back and forth narration in the beginning but it didn’t take me long to get used to it and after awhile I found I quite liked it.
All in all it’s another well done horror story by this author. I’m going to give it a 4.8 only because I rated his novel Road of Bones at a 5 and that one is gonna be hard to top for me.
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- Brooke D
- 05-09-24
Meh story, but good voice actors
This story had so much wasted potential, especially when you figure out why it's the house of last resort. The characters are boring, dialogue okay helped by a good voice cast, plot is predictable, and the only reason why I gave this story 3 stars is due to the ending. I would say if you like a vanilla horror story with a good voice cast, I would say this story fits that to a T.
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- Karen Nease
- 05-05-25
Maybe the worst book I've read in years.
this was boring as hell. not scary at all. the characters were terrible, especially Kate. halfway through the book i was wishing for her death, just a terrible person, and not in a way that added to the story. For me she was the unintentional villen.
All around, just bad character development, like the author has no idea how real people act.
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- Dan
- 06-01-24
Lacks substance
The two person narration was less than good. The story was thin. Packed with what’s expected in a PC story.
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