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A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee! A 2024 Legacy Awards Nominee! A Finalist for the Reading the West Book Awards!


A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father''s love, Johnny Compton''s The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the makingThe Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country.

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. When he comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, Eric hopes they have finally caught a lucky break. The owner of the most haunted place in Texas is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens thereprovided the house's horrors don't drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.

The job call

The Spite House

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: 07/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9781250841414, 978-1250841414
      ISBN10: 1250841410
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee! A 2024 Legacy Awards Nominee! A Finalist for the Reading the West Book Awards!


      A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father''s love, Johnny Compton''s The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the makingThe Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country.

      Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. When he comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, Eric hopes they have finally caught a lucky break. The owner of the most haunted place in Texas is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens thereprovided the house's horrors don't drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.

      The job call

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