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We Used to Live Here

We Used to Live Here

Summary

*** House of Leaves meets Parasite in this gripping and eerily haunting debut!***
*** Winner of Reddit NoSleep Scariest Story of the Year Award***
***A Goodreads 'Best Horror Novel of the Last 5 Years'***


'Inventive and genuinely scary' ALMA KATSU
'This is what I call a great book' AGUSTINA BAZTERRICA

You let them back in.
You shouldn't have...


Young couple Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they got on an old house deep in the mountains. One day, a man knocks on the door. He says he lived there years before and asks if he can show his family around.

As soon as they enter, strange things start to happen, and Eve is desperate for them to leave and never come back. But they can’t – or won’t – take the hint that they are no longer welcome.

Then, Charlie vanishes, and Eve begins to lose her grip on reality. She’s convinced there’s something terribly wrong with the house and its past inhabitants . . . or is it all in her head?

***Readers are terrified by We Used to Live Here***

'A spine-tingling rollercoaster… had me equal parts terrified and intrigued!' 5-STARS

'This was WILD. A terrifying, horrific and deeply unsettling yet addictive story.' 5-STARS

'I didn't see that plot twist coming. At all.' 5-STARS

'This is my kind of creepy! Oh…and it’s a debut?! Can’t wait to see more.' 5-STARS

'I will think about this book every time someone knocks on my door!' 5-STARS

' Wow this book. My mind is blown. This is one scary read. ' 5-STARS

'I couldn’t put this book down, I was captivated from start to finish.' 5-STARS

We Used to Live Here won Reddit NoSleep Scariest Short Story of the Year 2021

Reviews

  • Inventive and genuinely scary, We Used to Live Here is the most impressive horror debut I've read in a long time. Marcus Kliewer is a talent to watch.
    Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor

About the author

Marcus Kliewer

Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion animator. His debut novel We Used to Live Here began life as a serialized short story on Reddit, where it won the Scariest Story of 2021 award on the NoSleep forum (eighteen
million members). Film rights were snapped up by Netflix, and it was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the US for publication even before it had been extended into a full-length novel. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
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