The Night Strangers, Chris Bohjalian
The Night Strangers, Chris Bohjalian
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The Night Strangers

Author: Chris Bohjalian

Narrator: Alison Fraser, Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 14 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2011

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A family discovers that their new home hides dark secrets in this “beautifully written [and] deliciously creepy” (The Boston Globe) ghost story from the author of The Flight Attendant.

“Boasts all the trappings of a classic Gothic horror story . . . That thump thump you hear as you read is only your heart leaping from your chest.”—The Washington Post

In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with thirty-nine 6-inch-long carriage bolts.

The home’s new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. The body count? Thirty-nine—a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the bolts in his basement door. Haunted by the accident, he and his family struggle to start again—unaware that sometimes the past will find you.

With The Night Strangers, Chris Bohjalian delivers a poignant and powerful story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.

The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.

About The Author

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, including The Princess of Las Vegas, The Lioness, Hour of the Witch, Midwives, and The Flight Attendant, which was a Max series starring Kaley Cuoco. His other books include The Guest Room; Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; The Sandcastle Girls; Skeletons at the Feast; and The Double Bind. His novels Secrets of Eden, Midwives, and Past the Bleachers were made into movies, and his work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. His novels have been selections of Oprah’s Book Club. He is also a playwright (The Club, Midwives, and Wingspan). He lives in Vermont with his wife, photographer Victoria Blewer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachael

This was utterly terrifying. Really, really just the most frightening thing in the world... if, like me, you are a nervous flier. Apart from that, there is not a single scary incident in the rest of the book. In the first pages of the book you will be told that flight 1611, flown by Chip Linton, cras......more

Goodreads review by Lou

Imagine yourself a pilot of a passenger aircraft, a trip you have made hundreds of times something that you become so used to doing. On one occasion you are the captain of a particular plane and not far from landing to your destination, mid-air suddenly a flock of Geese hit your turbines and all dr......more

Goodreads review by Natalie

This is so different from The Sandcastle Girls that it could be written by a different author, except the writing is so good in them both. This is more horror; with witches, ghosts, shamens etc but with a good story running through it that had me not being able to turn the pages fast enough. And tha......more

Quotes

“Echoes of Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining . . . Read if you dare, but keep an extra light on, and make sure your seat is in the full upright and locked position.”—USA Today

“Boasts all the trappings of a classic Gothic horror story, reminiscent in places of the spousal secrets in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, the thrills of Rosemary’s Baby, and the psychological frights of Daphne du Maurier. That thump thump you hear as you read is only your heart leaping from your chest.”—The Washington Post

“[Bohjalian] earns a place alongside Stephen King as the master of the Halloween beach book. This ghost story is expertly and, at times, beautifully written, deliciously creepy, and, like a bag of trick-or-treat loot, silently calls out to you when it’s languishing on the night table.”—Boston Globe

“A good read for those who like a dash of creepiness.”—The New York Times

“Riveting . . . Seamless . . . A hell of a good ghost story.”—Justin Cronin, author of The Passage

“Bohjalian combines modern-day horror with supernatural horror to create a double whammy of otherworldly fear. . . . There’s no guarantee of safe passage in the end.”—Miami Herald

“Shades of The Shining make for a haunting tale . . . A modern-day ghost story worth losing sleep over.”—Family Circle

“A delicious and haunting tale.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“This unsettling latest from master storyteller Bohjalian will keep you up at night.”—People

“Good ‘n’ spooky.”—Good Housekeeping

“The Night Strangers has all the hallmarks of a good ghost story, but . . . Bohjalian has put his own twenty-first-century spin on the supernatural genre in his frightening new novel.”—CNN

Awards

  • New England Book Award
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