{"id":36050,"date":"2026-03-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=36050"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:47:26","slug":"incidents-around-the-house-a-novel-by-josh-malerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=36050","title":{"rendered":"Incidents Around The House: A Novel by Josh Malerman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young girl\u2019s troubled family is haunted by an entity she calls \u201cOther Mommy\u201d in this chilling tale from the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestselling author of\u00a0Bird Box.
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\u201cDeeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient [with] claustrophobic terror that almost transcends articulation . . . Simply put\u2014and I do not say this lightly\u2014Incidents Around the House<\/em>\u00a0is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.\u201d\u2014<\/em>Neil McRobert,\u00a0Esquire
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\u201cThis book is the monster that lives inside your closet.\u201d\u2014Grady Hendrix,\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0How to Sell a Haunted House<\/em><\/strong>

COMING SOON AS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE\u00a0OTHER MOMMY<\/em>, STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN \u2022 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST \u2022 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE<\/strong>

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There\u2019s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: \u201cCan I go inside your heart?\u201d

When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.

Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents\u2019 marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.

But Other Mommy needs an answer.

Incidents Around the House<\/em>\u00a0is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This book was so good. I listened to the audio book and the narrator did a really good job. I was totally invested the whole entire time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve read a lot of books, listened to many as well but this book creeped me out. It’s one thing to watch this stuff happen in a movie but there’s just something about reading\/listening to it in a book, that’s deeply unsettling in the best ways possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bella has another Mommy that she refers to as “Other Mommy”. This ghosty wants to go into Bella’s heart but Bella tells her no over and over again. Other Mommy only shows herself to Bella but as time goes on, she starts getting closer and showing herself to Bella’s parents and grandma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family try escaping Other Mommy but that doesn’t work. Why would it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As time progresses, Other Mommy becomes less like a friend, like Bella hoped for, and more of a monster. The author describes her perfectly and I could totally imagine what Other Mommy looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Mommy asks Bella time and time again if she can go into her heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Bella ever say yes or stick to her guns and keep saying no?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I definitely want to read\/listen to more by this author. I loved Bird Box but I unfortunately saw the movie first before I knew that it was a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you like creepy haunted houses and ghosty’s who haunt children, this one may just be for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A young girl\u2019s troubled family is haunted by an entity she calls \u201cOther Mommy\u201d in this chilling tale from the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0Bird Box.\u201cDeeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient [with] claustrophobic terror that almost transcends articulation . . . Simply put\u2014and I do not say this lightly\u2014Incidents Around the House\u00a0is the most purely … Continue reading Incidents Around The House: A Novel by Josh Malerman<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1029,437],"tags":[1685],"class_list":["post-36050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-standalone","tag-josh-malerman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9ns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36053,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050\/revisions\/36053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}