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Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill
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About this listen

‘This book is the monster that lives inside your closet’
GRADY HENDRIX, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddy and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: ‘Can I go inside your heart?’

When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.

Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents’ marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.

But Other Mommy needs an answer.

‘A gleeful, mean, old-school scare machine . . . You just have to turn the first page to set it off’
PAUL TREMBLAY, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Horror Movie

©2024 Josh Malerman (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited Ghosts Horror Psychological Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient . . . Simply put – and I do not say this lightly – Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read (Esquire, Best Horror Books of 2024)
A masterwork of unadorned existential terror (Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth)
Josh Malerman is such an insidious architect. I call all of his haunted houses home, and this just might be his most devilish design yet (Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters)
This haunting exploration of the perils of childhood is a story that will stay with you for a long time to come (Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens)
This book does worse than stay with you – it stalks you. Page-turning and nerve-burning – don’t read it after dark (Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Light Most Hateful)
Incidents Around the House effortlessly draws the reader in for a deeply unsettling and genuinely frightening read. It’s a masterclass in scares (Brian Keene, bestselling author of End of the Road)
Hereditary meets Skinamarink: one of my favorite books of the year (Sarah Langan, author of A Better World)
Terrifying, beguiling, bewitching, awesomely constructed and a masterpiece of voice and dread (Nat Cassidy, author of Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings)
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One of the best horror novels I've read. Best book this year. So, so good.

Incredible horror

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This was such a good listen! The narration was excellent, especially considering the narrator was only 17 when she recorded it. The story was great, genuinely creepy, sad in places, and the fact that it’s from the POV of a child definitely gives it extra creep factor. The story was well paced, never dragged and really made me look forward to listening. And the ending? Really well done, and will definitely stay with me

Absolutely loved it!

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Absolutely loved this audiobook being narrated by a child and a child’s point of view was sooooo good

Grippingly good

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Very engaging main character, brilliant story and 12/10 narration. I was rather bereft when it was over!

Superb narration/ performance

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Loved the story and the narration was outstanding, such an original perspective for a horror / possession story and the narration really brought this aspect of the book to life.

Brilliant

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what an amazing story genuinely gave me chills and goosebumps. I had to keep looking behind me to make sure “other mummy”wasn’t there

The story and narration are fantastic

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Narration was absolutely brilliant when you find out it’s one woman doing, what I thought, was a multiple cast production. Brilliant performance and although the “mommy says” got on my nerves a bit at the beginning, that wore off as the story took hold.

The narrator

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I liked the story overall some parts that felt like a really good lead up to being creepy but then i feel it just wasn't creepy enough and there was a lot of repetition of the dialogue throughout. It felt really dragged out in some places especially towards the end. However the story overall was good it kept me engaged and listening all the way through. The narrator brought this story to life very well. I've come across this story so many times and been meaning to listen to it and now i'm glad i did.

Blown Away By The Narrator

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Never would I have thought I would be so entranced and fascinated by a woman voicing a child. But boy was I ever. Story is captivating and well written and the narrator actually enhances the melody of the writing. Great pairing of author and narrator.

Narrator! Who are you!?

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the narrator is brilliant and makes it come to life, really good horror story

excellent

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