"Inhabiting the same sandy block as Michael McDowell's The Elementals and Josh Malerman's A House at the Bottom of a Lake, Cherie Priest's The Drowning House has taken up permanent residence in my subconscious alongside the briniest haunted houses around. Be forewarned: there's an undertow to this novel. Once you start reading, it'll suck you right in." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

"The Drowning House is deliciously eerie, atmospheric, and impossible to forget. The setting, the friends, and the washed-up house itself combine together to create one of this year's best horror stories." --Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of Dead of Winter

"Cherie's Priest's The Drowning House is a haunted house tale of a totally unique order. I consider myself a hard reader to surprise. Priest's thrilling and heartfelt novel managed to do just that." --Nick Cutter, author of The Handyman Method

"Propulsive, exciting, often terrifying, The Drowning House effortlessly threads compelling mysteries and horrors into a supernatural thriller drawing readers in from the first heart-stopping pages and not letting go until the end. Priest once again proves she is a masterful storyteller promising secrets and revelations. She delivers on all counts." --John Hornor Jacobs, author of A Lush and Seething Hell

"Cherie Priest has made something truly special with The Drowning House, a haunting story of ghosts, family, friendships, and horror. This is one of her best." --Stephen Blackmoore, author of Dead Things

"Cherie Priest can be counted on to tell a bang-up tale with engaging characters and exciting twists. She is one of our most underrated horror authors." --Poppy Z. Brite, author of Lost Souls

"Nature's fury plays a dominant role in Cherie Priest's haunting and gorgeous The Drowning House, a reminder to the reader that none of us are ever really in control. Through masterful prose, Priest seizes on that instability, introducing the intriguing confluence of events of a man disappearing the same night a mysterious house washes up on shore. Fiercely original and bone-deep chilling, The Drowning House is as satisfying as it is unsettling." --Carter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of The Father She Went to Find

"This smartly paced, genre bending novel is a good choice for the horror-curious thriller reader who enjoyed The Good House by Tananarive Due and Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia." -- Booklist, Starred Review

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"A great suspenseful and twisty story, reminiscent of Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher, and The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon." -- Library Journal

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Pub date: 2024-07-23

Length: 432 pages