Apartment 16
By (Author) Adam Nevill
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books
10th April 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for British Fantasy Award Best Horror Novel 2011 (UK)
Paperback
480
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 30mm
338g
Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . .
Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream * SFX *
An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born. * Maxim Jakubowski *
Not since reading Stephen Kings It has a book managed to instill such a feeling of fear and disquiet in me * fantasybookreview.co.uk *
A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best * Black Static *
Adam Nevill was born in England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of five novels of supernatural horror: Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days and House of Small Shadows. He lives in Birmingham and can be contacted through www.adamlgnevill.com.