THE QUIET HOUSE
Psychological ThrillerBy Arthur Payne
Length5h 17m
About this audiobook
She restores the voices of the dead for a living. She never expected to hear her mother's.
When sound engineer Mara Voss inherits her estranged mother's house on the edge of a quiet coastal town, she tells herself she is only there to clear it out and sell it. Six years of silence stand between her and the woman who died alone inside these walls, officially by accident, though the details have never quite sat right.
Then, cleaning up an unrelated client's old cassette tapes, Mara hears something buried in the noise floor that should not be there. A voice. Familiar. Saying her name.
At first it is easy to explain away. A trick of degraded tape. Grief playing tricks on a tired mind. But the wrongness follows her deeper into the house itself: a chair turned to face the wrong way, a door she is certain she closed standing open at dawn, footsteps recorded in an empty hallway that match her own exact gait. Her mother's old journals reveal she heard the same voice, in this same house, in the two years before she died, a decline that ended with her at the bottom of the staircase.
The house has a reputation, the local archivist admits, then refuses to say more.
Her sister will not speak of that final night at all.
And the recordings keep getting clearer.
As Mara pulls harder at the thread, three explanations tighten around her at once. The house is haunted, and she has inherited whatever her mother could not survive. Someone who knew exactly what happened that night wants her to stop looking, and is willing to make her doubt her own mind to ensure it. Or the same darkness that took her mother is already inside her, and every recording, every impossible footstep, every tender, terrible word in her mother's voice is being manufactured by her own unraveling grip on reality, in hours she will not remember living.
Told entirely through Mara's own increasingly unreliable account, and through the recordings she cannot stop making, editing, and replaying at three in the morning, The Quiet House is a slow burning, deeply atmospheric psychological thriller about inheritance, in blood and in madness both, and about how far a person will go to find proof of something the people who love her most are quietly praying she never finds.
The truth, when it finally comes, answers almost everything.
Almost.
Because buried in the very first recording Mara ever made in that house, before any of this began, two words are waiting for her. Clear. Unexplained. And impossible to take back.
Not yet.
For readers of The Haunting of Hill House, Gone Girl, and The Silent Patient, this is a novel about the unbearable, seductive relief of finally having proof, and the far more unbearable cost of discovering what that proof actually demands of you.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Horror, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
22CHAPTER TWENTY
2The Quiet House
23CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
3CHAPTER ONE
24CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
4CHAPTER TWO
25CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
5CHAPTER THREE
26CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
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6CHAPTER FOUR
27CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
7CHAPTER FIVE
28CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
8CHAPTER SIX
29CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
9CHAPTER SEVEN
30CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
10CHAPTER EIGHT
31CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
11CHAPTER NINE
32CHAPTER THIRTY
12CHAPTER TEN
33CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
13CHAPTER ELEVEN
34CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
14CHAPTER TWELVE
35CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN
36CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN
37CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN
38CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN
39CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
40CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
41CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
21CHAPTER NINETEEN
42CHAPTER FORTY
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