ISBN: 0593237870 9780593237878

Category: Fiction / Horror / General

Page count: 400

<b>Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Bird Box, </i>featuring the World Fantasy Award finalist “Half the House Is Haunted”</b><br><b><br>BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • AN <i>ESQUIRE </i>AND <i>LIBRARY JOURNAL </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories—and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul: <br><br>A sister insists to her little brother that <b>“Half the House Is Haunted” </b>by a strange presence. But is it the house that’s haunted—or their childhoods? <br><br>In <b>“Argyle,”</b> a dying man confesses to homicides he never committed, and he reveals long-kept secrets far more sinister than murder.<br><br>A tourist takes the ultimate trip to outer space in <b>“The Jupiter Drop,”</b> but the real journey is into his own dark past. <br><br>In <b>“Doug and Judy Buy the House Washer™,”</b> a trendy married couple buys the latest home gadget only to find themselves trapped by their possessions, their history . . . and each other.<br><br>And in <b>“Egorov,”</b> a wealthy old cretin murders a young man, not knowing the victim was a triplet. The two surviving brothers stage a savage faux-haunting—playing the ghost of their slain brother—with the aim of driving the old murderer mad.