The House

Five strangers from across America are about to open the door to an unspeakable evil in this horror novel from “master of the macabre!”* Bentley Little.They share a dark bond. A haunted childhood. A shocking secret. A memory of the houses they lived in—each one eerily identical to the next. From the remote foothills of the west to the green lawns of suburbia, they are returning—to the past, to the unspeakable events they long to forget...to the house.Now, their journeys are about to converge in a terrifying challenge to confront their nightmares—or be trapped inside them forever....*Stephen King

Amazon.com Review

If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bentley Little, then The House will give you the perfect opportunity to get to know this fine sorcerer of horror. Haunted houses are an endless source of fascination for writers of the macabre--Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw are excellent examples. But Bentley Little still manages to add something new to this well-trodden territory--and The House will scare your socks off. Five strangers simultaneously experience terrifying nightmares and strange hallucinations. These unnerving events reacquaint each of the individuals with a childhood they would rather forget and memories long repressed. It soon becomes apparent that each of these four men and one woman once lived in identical houses--right down to the arrangement of the furniture. Each character must return to that childhood home to confront the demons of the past and liberate their souls from the shackles of despair. Reading this battle of good versus evil is a nail-biting experience. For more of the same by this author, try The Store and The Ignored. --Naomi Gesinger

Stephen King

“The horror poet laureate...a master of the macabre!”

Midwest Book Review

“[Bentley Little is] on par with such greats as Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub.”

Publishers Weekly

“Little possesses the uncanny ability to take everyday situations and turn them into nightmares.”

Horror Reader

“Little has the unparalleled ability to evoke surreal, satiric terror.”

From the Back Cover

BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL STANDS ONLY ONE THING...THE HOUSEFive strangers are about to discover that they share a dark bond. A haunted childhood. A shocking secret. A memory of the houses they lived in -- each one eerily identical to the next.From the remote foothills of the west to the green lawns of sunny suburbia, they are returning -- to the past, to the unspeakable events they long to forget...to the house.And their journeys are about to converge, in one terrifying challenge to confront their nightmares -- or be trapped inside them forever....

About the Author

Bentley Little is the author of numerous novels, short stories, articles, essays, and reviews. After earning a BA in communications and an MA in English, Little sold his soul and abandoned all artistic integrity, working for eight years as a bureaucrat for a midsized city in Orange County, California. His first novel, The Revelation, won the 1990 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for best first novel.

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