Nolan Pierce

The Ledger at 11 Ashcap Lane: When the House Writes Back (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the end of Ashcap Lane stands a house that doesn't howl or slam or bleed. It reads. When a five-person crew arrives to document the property, they bring tape, forms, and a sensible plan: do not knock; count the mid-landing to seven; never offer your name to water, glass, wire, or screen; keep the front door propped and in sight. The house accepts their procedures with perfect courtesy-and then writes back. Notices duplicate themselves, a ledger upstairs records Date Item Disposition, and a radio down a runner corridor calls roll like a clerk closing files. Windows behave like ponds. Smoke settles low on purpose. Chairs learn a body before it sits.

Told in close third-person with brief archival interludes from the home's green-buckram ledger, this haunted house novel turns everyday paperwork into psychological horror. As the team tries to "evict" danger with the right words, the house keeps the letter and reroutes the meaning. Hospitality hardens into custody; verbs become verdicts: POST → POSTED, LAY → LAID, KEEP → KEPT. The result is gothic suspense built from counting, breath, and the small authority of posted rules-a slow-burn horror that never raises its voice while it removes every exit.

For readers who love a modern ghost story grounded in tools, craft, and consequence-where dread is procedural and the final audit feels both inevitable and unfair-The Ledger of 11 Ashcap Lane offers a new corner of weird fiction: not demons behind doors, but documents that decide what doors mean. File your notice if you must. Just beware the rules you write.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nolan Pierce
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232892555
• Artikelnr.: 75762120