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House of Small Shadows
- Author
- Adam Nevill
- Narrator
- Sofia Engstrand
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 9 April 2026
- Run Time
- 12 hours 38 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
They watch as you sleep . . .
House of Small Shadows is a compulsive and utterly chilling horror from the award-winning author of The Ritual, Adam Nevill.
'A gloriously gruesome fever dream' – SFX
The Red House: home to the late M. H. Mason, master taxidermist and puppeteer, where he lived and created some of his most disturbing works.
Catherine Howard can't believe her luck when she's invited to value the contents of the house. When she first sees the elaborate displays of preserved animals and macabre puppets, she's both thrilled and terrified. It's an opportunity to die for.
But the Red House has secrets. At night the building comes alive with noises and movements: footsteps, and the fleeting glimpses of small shadows on the stairs. And soon the barriers between reality, sanity and nightmare begin to collapse . . .
'Adam Nevill is a fantastic storyteller, a master of slow-building tension, and he's written a fever dream of a book. House of Small Shadows is chilling, disorienting and deeply creepy' – Scott Smith, author of The Ruins
Critics Review
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Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream
SFX
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An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring 'keep the light on' suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born
Maxim Jakubowski
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Not everyone enjoys horror stories, but for those that do read Last Days and afterwards look for more of the same from Adam Nevill who surely has the knack of creating undertones of chilling terror in an engrossing book
Book Bitch on Last Days
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A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best
Black Static on Apartment 16
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Details
- Author
- Adam Nevill
- Narrator
- Sofia Engstrand
- Duration
- 12 hours 38 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 April 2026
- ISBN
- 9781035095230
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Esoteric thriller
Synopsis
They watch as you sleep . . .House of Small Shadows is a compulsive and utterly chilling horror from the award-winning author of The Ritual, Adam Nevill.'A gloriously gruesome fever dream' – SFXThe Red House: home to the late M. H. Mason, master taxidermist and puppeteer, where he lived and created some of his most disturbing works.Catherine Howard can't believe her luck when she's invited to value the contents of the house. When she first sees the elaborate displays of preserved animals and macabre puppets, she's both thrilled and terrified. It's an opportunity to die for.But the Red House has secrets. At night the building comes alive with noises and movements: footsteps, and the fleeting glimpses of small shadows on the stairs. And soon the barriers between reality, sanity and nightmare begin to collapse . . .'Adam Nevill is a fantastic storyteller, a master of slow-building tension, and he's written a fever dream of a book. House of Small Shadows is chilling, disorienting and deeply creepy' – Scott Smith, author of The Ruins
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