The House That Screamed in My Voice
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Diane Wimer Center
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evan Silas Crawford buys 42 Blackwood Lane because he wants a fresh start.After two difficult years, the modest suburban house is supposed to become his fortress-a place where he can rebuild his life far away from failure, judgment, and the memories he wants to leave behind. The previous owner warns him that the house requires a specific kind of attention, but Evan dismisses the cryptic words as nothing more than eccentric salesmanship.Then the house begins to breathe.At first, Evan hears strange thumping beneath the floorboards. Then comes the sound of someone crying behind the locked basement door. When he breathes, something beneath the house breathes with him. When he speaks, another voice answers.His own voice.The voice knows things no stranger could possibly know. It knows about his blue mug. It knows his memories. It knows the choices he has made-and, more terrifyingly, the choices he has not yet made.Evan soon discovers that the basement is not an ordinary cellar. Beneath the house lies an impossible labyrinth filled with discarded versions of himself: men who lived through different choices, died in alternate accidents, remained trapped in different moments, or suffered the consequences Evan managed to avoid. Every attempt he made to fix his life created another version of himself and pushed that version into the darkness below.Now the basement is reaching its limit.The walls begin to shake. Mirrors become doorways. His reflections stop obeying him. Hundreds of versions of Evan are pressing toward the present, and the house is beginning to lose its ability to keep their realities separate. The life Evan fought so desperately to preserve may be the very thing that is destroying him.To survive, Evan must descend into the place he has spent weeks avoiding and confront the versions of himself he sacrificed along the way.Because the house isn't haunted by the dead.It is haunted by everything Evan refused to accept.The House That Screamed in My Voice is a psychological horror and supernatural thriller about regret, alternate realities, obsession, identity, and the terrifying consequences of trying to rewrite your own life.
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