The Last House on Needless Street [Paperback]

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

Named one of the Best Horror Books of All Time (EsquireandCosmopolitan) Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick ALibrary JournalEditors' Pick

Catriona Ward'sThe Last House on Needless Streetis a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans ofGone GirlandThe 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 isnt 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

CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She studied English at Oxford and later the Creative Writing Masters at the University of East Anglia. She won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel for her debut,The Girl from Rawblood, and again forLittle Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice.Little Evealso won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.

A World Fantasy and August Derleth Award Finalist!
An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
ALibrary JournalEditors' Pick! STARRED reviews fromLibrary JournalandPublishers Weekly!
One ofLibrary Journal's Best Horror Books of 2021.
Named one of the 50 Best Horror Books of All Time byEsquire!

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