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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. EllisonNarrated by Dana WhitfieldLength5h 29m
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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
Length5 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byDana Whitfield
FormatAudiobook
LanguageEnglish
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