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“Christopher Ragland provides a masterful narration…[and] gives listeners a thrilling experience that will shock them until the end.”
— Library Journal (starred audio review)
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An Indie Next Pick!A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!One of Bustle's "Most Anticipated Books of September"
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The buzz building around Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl.
— Stephen King
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Sensational….I can’t recall another novel in recent years that dares so much and succeeds so wildly.
— A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
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A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense, cunningly plotted and written with the elegant imagination of a Shirley Jackson or a Sarah Waters. I was completely enthralled.
— Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
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A breathtakingly ambitious book, gorgeously written, and never once shies away from showing you its fangs and its beautiful blood-filled heart. Stop reading this blurb already and open the damn book.
— Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
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A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting. One of the most powerful and well-executed novels I've read in years.
— Alex North, author of The Whisper Man
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Absolutely brilliant. This is extraordinary, high-wire-act horror, audacious as hell.
— Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Red Hands
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This masterful horror novel packs an emotional wallop that lingers.
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Dark and creepy, sad and wonderfully strange. It kept me glued and guessing right up to the end—I loved every inch of it.
— Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
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Brilliant. Breathtaking. Terrifying. A masterpiece to read at your own peril.
— Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
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A risky, gleeful descent into a house without windows or doors. It's a must-read for horror fans.
— Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Good Neighbors
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A stunning and immersive tale of psychological horror. It’s terrifyingly real and physically upsetting, yet, like the best of the genre, it leaves space for hope to ultimately shine through.
— Library Journal (starred review)
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“This book was like an onion. Layer after layer after layer and then you're crying and somebody's got a knife. A brutal, twisty, puzzle box of a book. I stayed up way past my bedtime.
— T. Kingfisher, author of The Hollow Places
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What did I just read?! One perfect sentence after the other ... this is a story I wish I knew how to write—and I'm thrilled that Ward pulled off this trick of a book.
— Rachel Howzell Hall, author of And Now She's Gone
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THIS IS THE BEST HORROR NOVEL I HAVE EVER READ. Even Shirley Jackson, her Majesty, would have to concede to this one.
— Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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Books like this don't come around too often... I would say I inhaled this in one, but I think I was too busy holding my breath throughout. Bravo.
— Joanne Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki
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The new face of literary dark fiction.
— Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes
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Full of twists and turns, this high-concept gothic horror is going to be huge.
— Guardian
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You don’t read The Last House on Needless Street—you survive it. This isn’t just a thriller; it’s a sleek, diabolical, stress-inducing machine.
— Jonathan Janz, author of The Siren and the Specter
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Incredible. Absolutely creep-inducing, skin-crawling, even agonising; and also so beautiful, both in writing and heart. One of my favourite things in ages.
— James Smythe, author of The Explorer
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Incredible. Just incredible. Throughout, I didn't know where to put my heart. A breathtaking, fiercely beautiful novel.
— Rio Youers, author of Lola on Fire
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Breathtakingly brilliant. Dark and relentlessly twisty, the best thing I've read this year.
— Lisa Hall, author of The Party
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Not only edge of the seat, terrifying suspenseful horror, but it also broke my heart into tiny pieces. Such exquisite writing.
— Muriel Gray, author of The Ancient