We Used to Live Here (Unabridged)
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3.7 • 317 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
From an author “destined to become a titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a haunting debut—soon to be a Netflix original movie—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.
As soon as the strangers enter their home, inexplicable things start happening, including the family’s youngest child going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can’t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family—or is Eve just imagining things?
This unputdownable and spine-tingling novel “is like quicksand: the further you delve into its pages, the more immobilized you become by a spiral of terror. We Used to Live Here will haunt you even after you have finished it” (Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender Is the Flesh).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A strange family dropping by a couple’s newly purchased home brings supernatural chills in this spooky horror thriller. House flippers Charlie and Eve are thrilled to get a super deal on a dilapidated old house. But when a stranger claiming to be a former resident shows up asking to show his family around and Eve starts to see disturbing things, she and Charlie have to question reality—and whether their great deal was hiding something much more insidious. Debut author Marcus Kliewer knows how to build a haunting tale, cruising smoothly from one creepy “coincidence” to another and expertly building up to the fateful climax. As he spins his spine-tingling web, we start to question everything, including what dreadful acts we might be capable of when everything we think we know is thrown into chaos. Narrators Jeremy Carlisle Parker and Corey Brill capture the bone-chilling suspense of this all-too-believable supernatural creep show, bringing each hair-raising development right into our earbuds.