The buzz... is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. - Stephen King Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel! A World Fantasy Award Finalist! An Indie Next Pick! A Library Reads Top 10 Pick! A Library Journal Editors' Pick! Starred reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly! Named one of the ""50 Best Horror Books of All Time"" by Esquire! ""Brilliant.... deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self."" - The New York Times Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his Tv, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.