The House That Breathes at Night
A Slow-Creeping Horror Tale of an Inherited Evil, a Watcher in the Walls, and the Debt the House RemembersBy Celia N. Ellison
Length7h 10m
About this audiobook
The walls aren't settling.
They're exhaling.
Seventeen-year-old Mara Delaney has spent years being the one who holds things together. She kept herself and her little brother Leo fed, safe, and moving forward through every hard month, every bad address, every night they slept in the back of a rusted-out sedan. So when a lawyer calls about a grandmother she never knew and a house waiting in the fog-choked town of Blackmere, Mara lets herself believe, just this once, that something is going right.
The house at 13 Bellwether Lane breaks that belief on the very first night.
A slow, wet inhale moves through the plaster — rhythmic, deliberate, like lungs filling and emptying inside the walls. Doors she locks at midnight stand open by dawn. Wallpaper peels back in strips to reveal old stains underneath, dark and wrong in a way she can't explain. And Leo stops being afraid.
He starts talking to the walls instead.
Someone in there whispers his name back.
The deeper Mara digs into the house's history, the more the truth about her grandmother takes shape — not a kindly recluse but a keeper of something buried beneath the foundation, a pact sealed with soil and silence. The house breathes because something inside it is alive. It has been starving for decades. It has already chosen Leo as its next breath, and every exhale pulls him further into a place Mara cannot follow.
To save him, she has to find the door that should have stayed shut.
And open it herself.
Even knowing the house has wanted her all along.
The House That Breathes at Night is a claustrophobic and atmospheric YA horror novel about inherited guilt, sibling sacrifice, the hunger that lives inside old wood, and the cost of being the one who always holds on.
Perfect for readers who love haunted house horror, creeping dread, dark family curses, and atmospheric slow-burn terror in the tradition of Darcy Coates and Bryce Nealham.
An unforgettable, heart-cracking coming-of-age story.
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Historical Fiction, Dystopia
Length7 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Prologue
4Chapter 1 - The Bloodline I Never Asked For
5Chapter 2 - The Door I Should Have Locked
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6Chapter 3 - The Breath Under the Floor
7Chapter 4 - The Cousin Who Heard It First
8Chapter 5 - The Cellar Full of Reasons to Leave
9Chapter 6 - The Warning I Almost Took
10Chapter 7 - The Clock the House Keeps
11Chapter 8 - The Ally I Didn’t Want to Need
12Chapter 9 - The Heart Under the Floorboards
13Chapter 10 - The Lungs That Stole Him
14Chapter 11 - The Children Who Never Left
15Chapter 12 - The Lady Who Breathes
16Chapter 13 - The Cousin Who Stole My Courage
17Chapter 14 - The Sacrifice I Didn’t Choose
18Chapter 15 - The Lover Who Held On
19Chapter 16 - The Brother with Skin Like Paper
20Chapter 17 - The Widower Who Kept Her Alive
21Chapter 18 - The Escape from a Dying Breath
22Chapter 19 - The Aftermath We Didn’t Celebrate
23Chapter 20 - The Hospital Room Where It Followed
24Chapter 21 - The Clock in His Lungs
25Chapter 22 - The Choice I Never Wanted
26Chapter 23 - The Empty Lot Where the House Waited
27Chapter 24 - The Crown I Gave Up
28Chapter 25 - The Love That Breathed Us Out
29Chapter 26 - The Morning We Finally Won
30Chapter 27 - The Scar We Share
31Epilogue
32About the Author
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