The Playroom: A Horror Novel

By Wallace Henry

Warning: Extreme and disturbing mixture of horror and science fiction.

Two small-town cops. One blood-soaked survivor. A nightmare in the woods.

A chilling mashup of The Troop, by Nick Cutter, and The Ritual, by Adam Nevill-cosmic horror in the backwoods of rural Georgia, where something monstrous awaits two unsuspecting lawmen.

Officers Bill Jensen and Jason Willard expect a quiet night on patrol, until a battered, naked woman stumbles into the glow of their headlights. Her story about a sadistic killer leads them deep into the woods of rural Georgia, to a decaying house that might just be the last stop for missing women.

Inside, Bill finds a chamber known as The Playroom. A surgical chair surrounded on all sides by instruments of torture.

But that isn't the worst of it.

"I couldn't put it down, had to keep reading. I'm a big Stephen King fan, and although no one can come close, I got a similar satisfaction from this book." -Amazon Review

As Bill searches the house, he uncovers a monstrous truth: the killer isn't working alone. Something ancient lives beneath the house. And it's hungry.

"...The author is really talented, and in the most suspenseful moments, I was every bit as enthralled as I've felt in my favorite Stephen King novels." -Amazon Review

A terrifying blend of backwoods horror, sci-fi horror, and cosmic dread, The Playroom is a gritty, fast-paced standalone horror novel perfect for fans of Stephen King, The Ritual, and alien creature thrillers like The Tommyknockers or Scott Smith's The Ruins.

For readers who enjoy: Creature horror and cosmic horrorSerial killer thrillers with a supernatural twistInhuman monstersHorror books on Kindle UnlimitedScary stories set in the rural South
Read it now-if you dare enter The Playroom.

Updated and revised, August 2024

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549983466
• ISBN13: 9781549983467
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"