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The House Beneath
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 5 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The House Beneath
A Novel by Brett Mattice
Greg thought he was just a maintenance man-a guy hired to fix leaky pipes, tighten loose hinges, and keep the aging, isolated estate functioning. But the house is not merely a structure; it is a machine, and it is starving.
Deep beneath the floorboards and the decaying foundation lies the Under-town, a nightmarish, subterranean reality where reality is warped by the weight of unhealed grief and mechanical obsession. As Greg struggles to maintain the house, he inadvertently feeds the entity-a dark, ancient intelligence that dwells in the hollow, using the house's architecture to keep the town trapped in a cycle of eternal repairs and quiet despair.
When Greg's wife, Hope, and their fifteen-year-old daughter begin to notice the house's subtle, sinister changes-the way the walls seem to breathe, the way the shadows in the hallways behave like oil-stained tendrils-they realize they are not just tenants; they are components in a grand, horrific design.
Now, Greg must make a choice: continue the maintenance and sacrifice his family to the cycle, or pick up his tools one last time to tear down the very foundation of the world he helped sustain.
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