The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward audiobook

The Last House on Needless Street

By Catriona Ward
Read by Christopher Ragland

Macmillan Audio
12.00 Hours • Unabridged
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    ISBN: 9781250819802

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King "Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen that is difficult to pause." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning review A World Fantasy Award and August Derleth Award Finalist! An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly! Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire! "Brilliant....[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." —The New York Times Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all. “The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

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Summary

Summary

A Library Journal Best Audiobook of the Year

An Indie Next List Pick

A September 2021 LibraryReads Pick

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King

"Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen that is difficult to pause." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winning review

A World Fantasy Award and August Derleth Award Finalist!
An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!
Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire!

"Brilliant....[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." —The New York Times

Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.

In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.

A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.
And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.

An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.

“The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Christopher Ragland provides a masterful narration…[and] gives listeners a thrilling experience that will shock them until the end.” —Library Journal (starred audio review)
An Indie Next Pick!A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!One of Bustle's "Most Anticipated Books of September" —
The buzz building around Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Haven't read anything this exciting since Gone Girl. —Stephen King
Sensational….I can’t recall another novel in recent years that dares so much and succeeds so wildly. —A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
A chilling and beautiful masterpiece of suspense, cunningly plotted and written with the elegant imagination of a Shirley Jackson or a Sarah Waters. I was completely enthralled. —Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
A breathtakingly ambitious book, gorgeously written, and never once shies away from showing you its fangs and its beautiful blood-filled heart. Stop reading this blurb already and open the damn book. —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
A masterpiece. Beautiful, heartbreaking and quietly uplifting. One of the most powerful and well-executed novels I've read in years. —Alex North, author of The Whisper Man
Absolutely brilliant. This is extraordinary, high-wire-act horror, audacious as hell. —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Red Hands
This masterful horror novel packs an emotional wallop that lingers. —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Dark and creepy, sad and wonderfully strange. It kept me glued and guessing right up to the end—I loved every inch of it. —Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
Brilliant. Breathtaking. Terrifying. A masterpiece to read at your own peril. —Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
A risky, gleeful descent into a house without windows or doors. It's a must-read for horror fans. —Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Good Neighbors
A stunning and immersive tale of psychological horror. It’s terrifyingly real and physically upsetting, yet, like the best of the genre, it leaves space for hope to ultimately shine through. —Library Journal (starred review)
“This book was like an onion. Layer after layer after layer and then you're crying and somebody's got a knife. A brutal, twisty, puzzle box of a book. I stayed up way past my bedtime. —T. Kingfisher, author of The Hollow Places
Ward ably handles the series of nested revelations of the truth about the house's inhabitants and how they connect to Ted's own childhood, all the while maintaining a propulsive, suspenseful tone. Recommended for anyone interested in horror with well-realized characters and a claustrophobic, intense setting. —Booklist
What did I just read?! One perfect sentence after the other ... this is a story I wish I knew how to write—and I'm thrilled that Ward pulled off this trick of a book. —Rachel Howzell Hall, author of And Now She's Gone
THIS IS THE BEST HORROR NOVEL I HAVE EVER READ. Even Shirley Jackson, her Majesty, would have to concede to this one. —Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Books like this don't come around too often... I would say I inhaled this in one, but I think I was too busy holding my breath throughout. Bravo. —Joanne Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki
The new face of literary dark fiction. —Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes
Full of twists and turns, this high-concept gothic horror is going to be huge. —Guardian
You don’t read The Last House on Needless Street—you survive it. This isn’t just a thriller; it’s a sleek, diabolical, stress-inducing machine. —Jonathan Janz, author of The Siren and the Specter
Incredible. Absolutely creep-inducing, skin-crawling, even agonising; and also so beautiful, both in writing and heart. One of my favourite things in ages. —James Smythe, author of The Explorer
Incredible. Just incredible. Throughout, I didn't know where to put my heart. A breathtaking, fiercely beautiful novel. —Rio Youers, author of Lola on Fire
Breathtakingly brilliant. Dark and relentlessly twisty, the best thing I've read this year. —Lisa Hall, author of The Party
Not only edge of the seat, terrifying suspenseful horror, but it also broke my heart into tiny pieces. Such exquisite writing. —Muriel Gray, author of The Ancient

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 12.00
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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