House of Sighs

House of Sighs

by Aaron Dries
House of Sighs

House of Sighs

by Aaron Dries

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Overview

This award-winning, psychological experience is back in print, and includes the exclusive sequel The Sound of his Bones Breaking, a novella that will leave you truly shaken.

"This taut, grisly thriller reads like a sick and twisted extreme horror SPEED. You don't know who, if anybody, will make it. Catch this bus at your own risk." - Eric Red, The Hitcher and Near Dark

Board for free. But the cost might be your life.

In House of Sighs, Local bus driver, Liz Frost, pulls the gun from her mouth and decides to live with her loneliness for one more day. She dresses, combs her hair, and goes to work. Nine souls board her route that fateful morning in rural Australia, nine souls who Liz drags back to her home against their will. She wants to build a new family from these passengers, men and women who are willing to kill to avoid becoming her kin. The bus leaves a trail of carnage in its wake as it rockets towards a house that has held its secrets for far too long, a place where crows now gather, ready to feed on whatever is left behind.

"Prepare to be blown away." - Dread Central

Includes the sequel novella The Sound of his Bones Breaking:

Trauma has teeth. Big ones. And it's always hungry for seconds.


Aiden and Danny down their beers in the open bar overlooking the road, legs brushing together, about as far as they let their public displays of affection go in that part of Australia. The warm breeze and pounding music--their last happy memory. Everything changes when the taxi pulls up and its drunken driver stumbles out, starting a street brawl that leaves Danny broken and bleeding on the ground. In an attempt to give his lover the space he needs to heal, Aiden accepts an employment opportunity in Thailand, and the two men set off overseas, their fates sealed air-tight within the confines of the airplane. But in the claustrophobic hush of their tiny Bangkok apartment, and while Aiden goes off to work, instead of mending, Danny's old scars begin to sing.

The lonely walks. The woman cooking bones in a vat of broth, whispering at him to eat the parts that hurt. The flies nobody but Danny can hear.

A burning desire to trace his heritage of hurt back to ground zero, and there, find someone to blame.

The Sound of his Bones Breaking is the dread-infused sequel to House of Sighs.

"Aaron Dries is a master of emotional horror. And there is horror here, but it's heightened by his authentic characters and their raw emotions. Dries makes you feel, makes your heart break. He also surprises you, taking the story in directions you'd never see coming." - Mark Allan Gunnells, author of Asylum and Companions in Ruin

Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing--Tales from the Darkest Depths.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643166759
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Publication date: 05/06/2018
Pages: 526
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Aaron Dries was raised in a small New South Wales town in Australia. Aaron graduated from the University of Newcastle with a B.A in Communication under his wing, majoring in creative writing and video production. As a filmmaker, he won a number of awards for his short films at home and abroad, including Best Film at the Newcastle Film Festival for “Placebo”, coinciding with the publication of his earliest stories in literary magazines. Aaron’s first novel, House of Sighs, was originally written under the title Disunity for Dorchester/Rue Morgue/Chizine Publication’s FRESH BLOOD contest and took the winning prize. Aaron is currently working on two feature screenplays and his follow-up novel, tentatively titled The Fallen Boys, the second installment in an unofficial trilogy that began with his debut.

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