The Spite House A Novel

Johnny Compton

eBook - 2023

A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee! A 2024 Legacy Awards Nominee! A Finalist for the Reading the West Book Awards!A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making—The Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country.Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. When he comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, Eric hopes they have finally caught a lucky break. The owner of the "most haunted place in Texas" is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a det...ailed record of everything that happens there—provided the house's horrors don't drive them all mad, like the caretakers before... more