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Also by Johnny Compton:

Dead First, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Midnight Somewhere, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Devils Kill Devils, October 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Spite House, March 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Spite House, July 2023
Hardcover / e-Book

THE SPITE HOUSE
By: Johnny Compton

Tor Nightfire
March 2024
On Sale: March 5, 2024
Featuring: Eric Ross
272 pages
ISBN: 1250861667
EAN: 9781250861665
Kindle: B09XL82J5C
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (July 2023)

Horror

A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! • A Bram Stoker Award Nominee!

A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making—The Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country.

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. When he comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, Eric hopes they have finally caught a lucky break. The owner of the “most haunted place in Texas” is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens there—provided the house’s horrors don’t drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.

The job calls to Eric, not just because of the huge payout, but because he needs access to the secrets of the spite house. If it is indeed haunted, maybe it will help him understand the uncanny power that clings to his family, driving them from town to town, too afraid to stop running…