The Night House

From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel - When the voices call, don't answer. "In The Night House , the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there."--Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Mirror Forest. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . She's going to burn. The girl you love is going to burn. There's nothing you can do about it.

From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel - When the voices call, don't answer. "In The Night House , the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there."--Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Mirror Forest. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . She's going to burn. The girl you love is going to burn. There's nothing you can do about it.

Bestselling author, artist, and word-witch Danielle Dulsky returns with a retelling of traditional fairy tales that invites readers to recognize the universal archetypes and transformative wisdom in these tales and to explore and enact the magick and rituals secreted inside Danielle Dulsky is back with a transcendent and insightful retelling of traditional fairy tales, reconsidered for contemporary readers. Historically kept and transmitted by women, fairy tales are distinguishable from other types of folk tales for their magickal and supernatural elements, and because of this, they were often dismissed as trivial domestic fantasies for women and children. Dulsky illuminates how this chauvinism kept these stories safe from the witch-hunter's noose and allowed women to safely store and transmit their ancient and sacred wisdom. Each story is a treasure box of coded knowledge and magickal practice meant for new generations to uncover, open, and explore. The nine chapters of The Night House are then thirteen keys opening thirteen chambers of this box of shadows. Mythic images common to wonder stories emerge, Jungian universal archetypes arise, and "old ways" are made visible, revealing the call to continue the medicinal work of story keeping for the modern world. The underground forest, the rose behind the glass, the red cloak, the candy house . . . Dulsky shows how these mythic images can illuminate the "glamour spells" visible in Little Red Riding Hood or the ancestral protection rites evident in Cinderella , the story of the girl who rose from the ashes. Dulsky's fresh and relevant commentary is perfect for helping readers today reconnect with the Earth, ancestors, and their own spirit. The Night House shows how a single fairy tale is actually a grimoire in itself, a spell book of mysteries that has remained largely intact, preserved under the floorboards of the Yaga's hut for the reader to find.