Incidents Around the House

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A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, 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.

Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.“Malerman succeeded in doing something I thought impossible: creating actual jump scares in a book. I promise it will leave your heart pounding.”—Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hugo Award–winning author of HEX and Oracle

“This is horror done so well that it’ll make your skin crawl. It’s a haunting exploration of the perils of childhood, and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come. . . . Highly, highly recommended.”—Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens

“Incidents Around the House is a gleeful, mean, old-school, Rube Goldbergian 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

“This book is so original that it’s hard to describe: It deserves more than to be called chilling; it deserves more than to be characterized as a work rich in the infectious fears of childhood.”—Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth

“This book does worse than stay with you—it stalks you. Don’t read after dark. Incidents Around the House will make you a child again, and you’ll remember being small and afraid.”—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Light Most Hateful

“Malerman masterfully builds dread, infusing his story with moments so gripping in terror I couldn’t put it down. This is everything I’m looking for in a horror story.”—Laurel Hightower, Bram Stoker–nominated author of Below and Crossroads

“Incidents Around the House is creepy, disturbing, and utterly convincing. This is what great horror does: Read it and it will never leave you. Josh Malerman is one of the best.”—Thomas Tessier, award-winning author of The Nightwalker, Rapture, and Fog Heart

“A master class in scares . . . Highly recommended!”—Brian Keene, bestselling author of End of the Road

“Josh Malerman is such an insidious architect: I call all of his haunted houses home. Incidents Around the House might just be his most devilish design yet.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters
 
“You can’t read this one at night, turn out the lights, and go to sleep. This book has actual jump scares! Trust me: daytime only in a room with no closets.”—Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered

“There are so many words you could use to describe Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House . . . But only one word will really do the trick . . . inescapable.”—Nat Cassidy, author of Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings

“Incidents Around the House is a shocker, a modern horror classic that scared the absolute hell out of me.”—Jonathan Janz, author of Children of the Dark

“Nightmarish, unsettling and genuinely scary—it’s Hereditary meets Skinamarink.”—Sarah Langan, author of A Better World

“Perfectly frightening . . . feels like an otherworldly warning as much as a story.”—Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House Josh Malerman is a New York Times bestselling author and one of two singer-songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. His debut novel, Bird Box, is the inspiration for the hit Netflix film of the same name. His other novels include Daphne, Pearl, Spin a Black Yarn, and Malorie, the sequel to Bird Box. Malerman lives in Michigan with his fiancée, the artist-musician Allison Laakko.US

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