Night Things

Built by a madwoman during the Victorian era Lake House is a 160-room mansion in the Adirondacks with stairways that lead nowhere bizarre rooms designed to distort the senses endless series of mazelike halls-and a century-long history of violent deaths.<br><br>Lauren Montgomery her son Garrett and her new rock star husband Stephen Ransom have just arrived at Lake House anticipating a long and relaxing summer. But what they don't know is that their rental home is actually a labyrinthine puzzle at whose center lurks something unspeakably evil . . .<br><br>An inventive and chilling haunted house story in the vein of Mark Z. Danielewski's <i>House of Leaves</i> Michael Talbot's <i>Night Things</i> (1988) is a page-turning mixture of horror and fantasy from the author of <i>The Delicate Dependency</i>.<br><br>[T]he most ingenious haunted house in years . . . a grand puzzle . . . Haunted-house fans will enjoy the inventive architecture of Lake House. - <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br>Talbot is a great storyteller . . . Night Things has twists which will pleasantly surprise even jaded horror readers. - <i>Weird Tales Magazine</i>