The House That Eats the Dead

Here I am, thinking I’m the one devouring The House That Eats The Dead, only to learn - too late - that Max Doty’s devilishly voracious novel ended up devouring me. Better put your fear in escrow before opening this book. Your heart’s going to need it – Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil Inside
The House that Eats the Dead rips … Max Doty peers straight into the blacker corners of the human soul and reports back without blinking. It’s nasty, smart, satisfying, and enormously fun. I had a great time with it – Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char and Blacktail
A dark, domestic fairytale that edges closer to madness with every chapter … Thrilling and haunting in equal measure, The House that Eats the Dead makes a banquet of everyday horrors and leaves no crumbs – Cameron Sullivan, author of The Red Winter
An ingenious take on haunted houses, The House That Eats The Dead is a delightfully bloody story about the sacrifices people make for stability … With a clever premise and a tightly paced escalation, I was hooked up until the deeply satisfying conclusion – Bonnie Quinn, author of the How to Survive Camping series
An all-consuming horror, Max Doty’s fast-paced and deliciously unhinged debut The House That Eats The Dead gives a fun twist to the haunted house novel – Leigh Radford, author of One Yellow Eye
A wonderful exploration of love, loss, pain, memory, and the nature of good and evil - as well as a fun read and absolute page turner – Kelly Dwyer, author of Ghost Mother
Max Doty subverts the idea of home-as-sanctuary in this tense domestic horror. A darkly thrilling delight; I devoured it in great gulps – Charlotte Cross, author of The Brides

Max Doty is a veteran game-writer who served as the Head of Content for Choices: Stories You Play and Surviving High School, for which he also wrote two spin-off novels. His screenplay Almost Kings won Netflix’s inaugural Find Your Voice award and was made into a feature film. Max regularly contributes to reddit’s NoSleep forum as scarymaxx, where his works often appear at the top of the charts. He holds a BA and an MA from Stanford University as well as an MFA from Arizona State University. The House That Eats the Dead is his first novel.

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