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The Night House
- Author
- Jo Nesbo
- Narrator
- Edward Bourne
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 28 September 2023
- Run Time
- 6 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne.
Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . .
You know who I am. She's going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There's not a thing you can do about it.
When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence-and preserve his sanity-as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction.
Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story.
©2023 Jo Nesbo (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Nesbø doesn't spend any time fiddling about, building up, or misdirecting. In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there. There are lessons to be learned here: who to believe and what to believe in. And how a person can change, when the impossible turns possible and the unimaginable is laid bare. This horror fan loved it
Josh Malerman, best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
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A beguiling coming-of-age tale that becomes more terrifying as it builds, with plenty of tension and surprises packed into its pages
SUNDAY EXPRESS
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Best-selling Norwegian author Jo Nesbo unfolds his tale of a troubled teen grappling with dark forces from three different perspectives, each more chilling than the last
Daily Mail
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Details
- Author
- Jo Nesbo
- Narrator
- Edward Bourne
- Duration
- 6 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 September 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529900804
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Narrative theme: coming of age, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne.Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . .You know who I am. She's going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There's not a thing you can do about it.When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence-and preserve his sanity-as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction.Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story.©2023 Jo Nesbo (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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