Description: "A 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'"--
Review Quotes: "Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient . . . Simply put--and I do not say this lightly--Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read."--Esquire, "Best Horror Books of 2024"
"A disturbing bedtime story told by a broken child, this book IS the monster that lives inside your closet."--Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House "A gleeful, mean, old-school 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 "A masterwork of unadorned existential terror."--Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth "Josh Malerman is such an insidious architect. I call all of his haunted houses home, and this just might be his most devilish design yet."--Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters "This haunting exploration of the perils of childhood is a story that will stay with you for a long time to come."--Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens "This book does worse than stay with you--it stalks you. Page-turning and nerve-burning--don't read it after dark."--Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth and A Light Most Hateful "Incidents Around the House effortlessly draws the reader in for a deeply unsettling and genuinely frightening read. It's a masterclass in scares."--Brian Keene, bestselling author of End of the Road "Hereditary meets Skinamarink: one of my favorite books of the year."--Sarah Langan, author of A Better World "Terrifying, beguiling, bewitching, awesomely constructed, and a masterpiece of voice and dread."--Nat Cassidy, author of Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings "So gripping in terror, I couldn't put it down. This is everything I'm looking for in a horror story."--Laurel Hightower "This book has actual jump scares! Trust me: daytime only in a room with no closets."--Sadie Hartmann, author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered "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 triumph of craft and suspense."--Sarah Gailey"A shocker, a modern horror classic that scared the absolute hell out of me."--Jonathan Janz, author of Children of the Dark
"Perfectly frightening . . . feels like an otherworldly warning as much as a story."--Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House
"One of the most terrifying books I have ever read . . . I promise it will leave your heart pounding."--Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hugo Award-winning author of HEX and Oracle