Apartment 16 [Paperback]

Some doors are better left closed . . .

Darkly profound and utterly chilling,Apartment 16is a work of compulsive psychological horror from the award-winning author ofThe Ritual, Adam Nevill.

Fast becoming Britain's answer to Stephen King The Guardian

In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life for ever.

A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. Shes been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian, who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago.

Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . .

A gloriously gruesome fever dream SFX

Adam L. G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the horror novelsBanquet for the Damned,Apartment 16,The Ritual,Last Days,House of Small Shadows,No One Gets Out Alive,Lost GirlandUnder a Watchful Eye. His first short-story collection,Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors, was published on Halloween, 2016.

His novelsThe Ritual,Last DaysandNo One Gets Out Alivewere the winners of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.lB