The House Next Door

By Anne Rivers Siddons

Book Overview

Now a movie starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Colin Ferguson Step into the spellbinding world of The House Next Door, a Southern Gothic masterpiece blending suburban suspense, eerie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061008737
• ISBN13: 9780061008733
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

A must read

This is a wonderful novel. I read it after reading Outer Banks so I knew I was in for some kind of treat. I had no idea this book would be as wonderful as it was. Full of suspense to the very, very end. This is great summer reading, folks, I recommend it highly.

An Intense and Original Take On the Haunted House

This book is so different from the usual haunted house fare. There really isn't much that serves as a tangible reason for the house being so evil, it just apparently is. And it's a vicious house for certain, preying on psychological fear rather than manifesting itself as a poltergiest or apparition. Things just "happen" in or around the house, disturbing things. Lives are ruined and that is the only motiff that emerges. It's not a singular entity with just murder in mind. It wants to cause pain to its victims on an inner level and that is extremely frightening in concept. The novel is like a constant mind rape of the characters involved and it is so very delicious in its malice. One of the top 10 horror novels I have ever read and way more intense than Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Richard Matheson's Hell House. A must read for any fan of the horror genre or any new home owner.