The Nightmare House
- Author Sarah Allen
- Narrator Kelli Garland
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 8 August 2023
- Run Time 6 hours and 31 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers.
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What to expect
From Sarah Allen, the acclaimed author of What Stars Are Made Of and Breathing Underwater, comes a chilling middle-grade tale of fear, friendship, and finding courage even in the darkest of moments. In this monster story that’s also an allegory for relentless anxiety, see how far a penny’s worth of hope will take you when you enter The Nightmare House.
I saw a person with blank, colorless eyes … and this time, I wasn’t dreaming.
Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her nightmares―a tall, thin man with red eyes, in a haunted house in the woods, who devours human souls and leaves their eyes hollow and empty. Penny’s beloved grandma tells her to write down these nightmares as poems in her notebook. But then Penny starts seeing blank-eyed people in the waking world, too. She’s the only one who notices.
Critics Review
u201cA gorgeous book with scares enough for the brave at heart and heart enough for everyone. I loved every page.u201d
u201cThe Nightmare House is timeless, exciting, beautiful, creepy, and above all, full of the hope that lights even the darkest nights.u201d
u201cPoetic prose and visceral emotion infuse realistic depth into this mood-driven, allegorical portrayal of mental illness.u201d
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