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Start giftingTwelve Nights at Rotter House
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“Darkly humorous tale that morphs into darkly terrifying. Paranormal travel writer and skeptic, Felix, plans to stay thirteen nights at Rotterdam Mansions, aka Rotter House. His old friend Thomas joins him, and the two reconnect over their shared love of horror films. But there are secrets and tension between the two friends, which the house seems to pick up on and amplify. When Felix begins to experience actual hauntings, his skeptical mind in sent reeling. Neither man will make it to night thirteen, and you'll be glued to your reading chair to find out why. Narrator Matt Godfrey captures the snark and the sinister tone of the book perfectly, I'm definitely recommending the audio!”
— Kate • Fountain Bookstore
Bookseller recommendation
“A darkly humorous tale that morphs into darkly terrifying. Paranormal travel writer and skeptic, Felix, plans to stay thirteen nights at Rotterdam Mansions, aka Rotter House. His old friend Thomas joins him, and the two reconnect over their shared love of horror films. But there are secrets and tension between the two friends, which the house seems to pick up on and amplify. When Felix begins to experience actual hauntings, his skeptical mind in sent reeling. Neither man will make it to night thirteen, and you'll be glued to your reading chair to find out why. Narrator Matt Godfrey captures the snark and the sinister tone of the book perfectly, so I'm definitely recommending the audio!”
— Kate • Fountain Bookstore
Bookseller recommendation
“Darkly humorous tale that morphs into darkly terrifying. Paranormal travel writer and skeptic, Felix, plans to stay thirteen nights at Rotterdam Mansions, aka Rotter House. His old friend Thomas joins him, and the two reconnect over their shared love of horror films. But there are secrets and tension between the two friends, which the house seems to pick up on and amplify. When Felix begins to experience actual hauntings, his skeptical mind in sent reeling. Neither man will make it to night thirteen, and you'll be glued to your reading chair to find out why. Narrator Matt Godfrey captures the snark and the sinister tone of the book perfectly, so I'm definitely recommending the audio!”
— Kate • Fountain Bookstore
Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself.
When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for two weeks, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a bestseller. As with his other gigs, he sets rules for himself: no leaving the house for any reason, refrain from outside contact, and sleep during the day.
When Thomas Ruth, Felix's oldest friend and fellow horror film obsessive, joins him on the project, the two dance around a recent and unspeakably painful rough-patch in their friendship, but eventually fall into their old rhythms of dark humor and movie trivia. That's when things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement. Felix realizes the book he's writing, and his very state of mind, is tilting from nonfiction into all out horror, and the shocking climax answers a question that's been staring these men in the face all along: In Rotter House, who's haunting who?
J. W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, A Season with the Witch, and Death and Douglas. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Boston Globe, CNN, the Atlantic, and other places people stick writing. He's from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire for more than a decade.
Matt Godfrey was raised on O'Connor, Welty, and Lee, and spent most of his teenage years in Yoknapatawpha County. But he traveled wherever the books took him, from Alabama to Tokyo, Twain to Murakami. Now he has the privilege of bringing those books to life as an audiobook narrator. He works in all genres and in a lot of accents, but specializes in his beloved Southern Gothic. He is a two-time nominee for the Society of Voice Arts & Sciences Awards and the Audiobook Reviewer Listener's Choice Awards. He has a fully equipped home studio and works with major publishers, small presses, and indie authors alike.
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