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The Staircase in the Woods
- Author
- Chuck Wendig
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2025
- Run Time
- 13 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Brought to you by Penguin.
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS FROMS THIS NEW MESMERISING HORROR NOVEL
Five high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.
On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere
One friend walks up – but never comes back down.
Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy – and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods…
FROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.
'Unputdownable, with imagery that cuts like a knife - this is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game.' THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT, AUTHOR OF HEX AND DARKER DAYS
'A searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known.' KIERSTEN WHITE, NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIDE
'Deliciously disorienting and deeply captivating' ALAINA URQUHART, NO. 1 NEW TORK TIMES BETSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BUTCHER GAME
© Chuck Wendig 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
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Chuck Wendig is the Frank Lloyd Wright of horror and here's his masterstroke of malaise. The Staircase in the Woods is a true blueprint for terror that stands alongside the likes of such classic habitats as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Michael McDowell's The Elementals, and Stephen King's The Shining.
Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
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Chuck Wendig weaves his magic once more, turning a lonely staircase in the woods into a searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known. I’d follow him anywhere (fictionally, not literally, because I’m not setting foot on those stairs).
Kiersten White, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide
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A highly original twist on the archetypical reuniting of childhood friends, The Staircase in the Woods is more than just a deliciously nostalgic horror story. It’s a masterclass in character. As each of the people who inhabit these pages dwell through the labyrinth of guilt and grief and memory, they will also possess your mind, and you will fall in love with them because they are all too human. Unputdownable, with imagery that cuts like a knife - this is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game
Thomas Olde Heuvelt, author of HEX and Darker Days
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Chuck Wendig has given us another stunner. The Staircase in the Woods is as mysterious, alluring, heartbreaking, ever-shifting, and unnervingly powerful as the nature of friendship itself.
Nat Cassidy, author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary
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Heart-wrenching and anxiety-inducing. Like if the crew from King's IT were thrown into the chaotic hallways of Danielewski's House of Leaves, The Staircase in the Woods will become lodged in your mind, if you let it in.
Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley
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With The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig has crafted a very sinister take on the familiar urban legend. Highly original and deeply disturbing, this one will stick with you.
Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Haunting of Velkwood
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The Staircase in the Woods is delicious disorienting and deeply captivating. It will pull at the
threads of your psyche in the best way until you feel like you just emerged from the most
exquisite nightmare.Alaina Urquhart, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Butcher Game
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You'll read this book and be unseated, disoriented, and yes, scared. But if you read it as I read it,
you'll come away with a searching portrait of four friends trying to find the things we all tend to
lose as we grow older: faith, direction, hope, happiness, purpose. That's the heart of Chuck
Wendig's work in these pages, and to read a book that illuminates such profound human truths is
very rare indeed.Nick Cutter, bestselling author of The Troop 125%
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Details
- Author
- Chuck Wendig
- Narrator
- Jay Myers, Amber Benson, Xe Sands
- Duration
- 13 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781804954195
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Genre
- Contemporary horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Science fiction, Dark fantasy
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS FROMS THIS NEW MESMERISING HORROR NOVELFive high school friends, bonded by an oath to protect each other no matter what.On a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhereOne friend walks up – but never comes back down.Now twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared, and the friends return to find the lost boy – and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods…FROM THE MODERN HORROR SENSATION COMES A NEW BONE-CHILLING MASTERPIECE.'Unputdownable, with imagery that cuts like a knife - this is Chuck Wendig at the top of his game.' THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT, AUTHOR OF HEX AND DARKER DAYS'A searing, propulsive, dread-filled exploration of the horrors of knowing and being known.' KIERSTEN WHITE, NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIDE'Deliciously disorienting and deeply captivating' ALAINA URQUHART, NO. 1 NEW TORK TIMES BETSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BUTCHER GAME© Chuck Wendig 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
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