02674cam a2200433 i 4500 1013988510 TxAuBib 20231024120000.0 230126s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022060220 9780593537169 hbk. 0593537165 hbk. (OCoLC)1365363778 TxAuBib rda eng nor Nesbø, Jo, 1960- Natthuset English. The night house / Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. 245 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Translation of: Natthuset. "A novel"--Cover. "In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear... You know who I am. She's going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There's not a thing you can do about it. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence-and preserve his sanity-as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction. Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story..."-- Provided by publisher. 20231024. In English, translated from the Norwegian. Teenage boys Fiction. Orphans Fiction. People with mental disabilities Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Small cities Norway Fiction. Norway Fiction. Horror fiction. Paranormal fiction. Smith, Neil, translator, (Neil Andrew.) Nesbø, Jo, 1960-, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.