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"As original as it is affecting . . . left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book."
-Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song
"Hold on, this isn't a ride, it's a slide, and it doesn't care whether you're ready or not."
-Stephen Graham Jones, author of…
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1 author picked This Thing Between Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This Thing Between Us is a strange, mesmerizing, and oddly funny story about one man’s grief and how it leads to an invasive, evil force penetrating our world from the beyond. In part, it’s a haunted house story, but the ghost is in the machine—specifically a smart speaker named “Itza,” which is Moreno’s version of Alexa. I had the idea to a write a haunted house novel in which the house is haunted by a computer, but Gus beat me to it, and did it ten times better than I could have. You won’t read anything like this one,…
From Andy's list on horror writers who aren’t Stephen King.
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