The Residence, Andrew Pyper
The Residence, Andrew Pyper
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The Residence

Author: Andrew Pyper

Narrator: Madeleine Maby

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2020


Synopsis

In this “chilling, profound” (Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie) horror story based on true events, the President’s late son haunts the White House, breaking the spirit of what remains of the First Family and the divided America beyond the residence’s walls.

The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails, violently flinging passengers about the cabin. But when the great iron machine finally comes to rest, the only casualty is the President-elect’s beloved son, Bennie, which casts Franklin’s presidency in a pal of sorrow and grief.

As Franklin moves into the White House, he begins to notice that something bizarre is happening. Strange sounds coming from the walls and ceiling, creepy voices that seem to echo out of time itself, and visions of spirits crushed under the weight of American history.

But when First Lady Jane Pierce brings in the most noted Spiritualists of the day, the Fox sisters, for a séance, the barrier between this world and the next is torn asunder. Something horrible comes through and takes up residence alongside Franklin and Jane in the walls of the very mansion itself.

Only by overcoming their grief and confronting their darkest secrets can Jane and Franklin hope to rid themselves—and America—from the entity that seeks to make the White House its permanent home.

About Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper (1968–2025) was the internationally bestselling author of fourteen novels, including The Homecoming, The Only Child, The Damned, and The Demonologist, which won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Hardcover Novel, as well as The Killing Circle, which was selected a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. He lived in Toronto with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

I was up all night, sleeping with lights didn’t work! The most disturbing thing about this book is not haunted, supernatural entities’ existence lurking inside the rooms of the White House or the thin line between reality and insanity! The sadness, bleakness of parents who lost their child and who a......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea

"You think you hold sole ownership over pain. Perhaps you believe you invented it... I have my arrogance. But this Jeannie-this is yours." I've always felt horror is divided into two distinct parties: the gory, jump scare variety and the horror that plays upon grief and a person's worst nightmare com......more

My thanks to Gallery/Skybound, Andrew Pyper and Netgalley. So, just about the 60% mark I realized that I was done with this. I was majorly depressed. This was not scary. Mostly just awful sad and soon depressing. Those poor children. As a wife? I too would have been unforgiving. Not haunted, but.........more