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We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
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We Used to Live Here

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Length 9 hours 51 minutes
Language English
Narrators Corey Brill & Jeremy Carlisle Parker

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Young couple Charlie and Eve canโ€™t believe the killer deal they got on an old house deep in the mountains. One day, a man knocks on the door. He says he lived there years before and asks if he can show his family around.

As soon as they enter, strange things start to happen, and Eve is desperate for them to leave and never come back. But they canโ€™t โ€“ or wonโ€™t โ€“ take the hint that they are no longer welcome.

Then, Charlie vanishes, and Eve begins to lose her grip on reality. Sheโ€™s convinced thereโ€™s something terribly wrong with the house and its past inhabitants . . . or is it all in her head?

The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this gripping, eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit โ€“ soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively โ€“ that will keep you up into the early hours. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Leave the World Behind.


ยฉ Marcus Kliewer 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion animator. His debut novel We Used to Live Here began life as a serialized short story on Reddit, where it won the Scariest Story of 2021 award on the NoSleep forum (eighteen
million members). Film rights were snapped up by Netflix, and it was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the US for publication even before it had been extended into a full-length novel. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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Reviews

Chilling and filled with a permeating sense of dread from the very first chapter... This is the kind of story that leaves your head spinning for days. Full of unease and stomach-churning dread, We Used to Live Here creeps up to you like a sly shadow. I wanted to look away. I absolutely could not. Marcus Kliewer is destined to become a titan of the macabre and unsettling. Read this with every single light on. Inventive and genuinely scary, We Used to Live Here is the most impressive horror debut I've read in a long time. Marcus Kliewer is a talent to watch. There is a feeling that a small number of books conjure. It can be distilled to: Oh god, something ainโ€™t right here. Their hallmark is a creeping, unaccountable, jangly dread that seeps into their pages until you almost wish you could stop readingโ€”but of course, itโ€™s too late. Youโ€™re in its grip. We Used to Live Here is one of those rare books. This book is like quicksand: the further you delve into its pages, the more immobilized you become by the spiral of terror that takes over you when you know nothing seems what it is... Is a family really a family? Can a house be something else? We Used to Live Here is going to haunt you even after you have finished it. This is what I call a great book. Expand reviews
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