The Last House on Needless Street

‘This spectacular gothic fantasy is one of the most extraordinary thrillers of the year so far… Splendidly sinister and twisty, it comes to a magnificent Grand Guignol finale’ - Daily Mail‘This is Stephen King country, and Catriona Ward’s novel is at the horror end of the thriller scale. But this is not horror as you know it… for all the deliberate echoes of Psycho and The Shining, Ward’s ambition is closer to William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. The reader is in her hands but never feels manipulated - this is horror with integrity’ - The Times‘The buzz building around Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is real. I’ve read it and was blown away. It’s a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Haven’t read anything this exciting since Gone Girl’ - Stephen King‘This is the most gloriously complex, shifting story, deeply disturbing yet also, somehow, heartwarming … Ward has created something exceptionally unsettling here, as many-layered and sinister as the Russian doll that sits on Ted’s mantelpiece’ - Observer‘The book sits in that twilight margin between psychological thriller and Gothic horror, with Ward, twice the recipient of the August Derleth Award, beautifully wrongfooting the reader every step of the way’ - Financial Times

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the US, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She is the author of Rawblood and Little Eve, and has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel twice, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her latest book, The Last House on Needless Street, was a BBC2 Between the Covers book club pick and a Times bestseller, as well as a #1 Kindle bestseller and a Times and Observer Thriller of the Month. Translation rights have been sold in 20 territories, and the film rights have been optioned by Imaginarium Productions. Ward lives in London and Devon.