The House of Tongues, James Dashner
The House of Tongues, James Dashner
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The House of Tongues

Author: James Dashner

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 12 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/21/2021


Synopsis

The author of the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series leads us on a dark journey of generational horror as we visit The House of Tongues.

David Player has spent thirty years trying to forget the traumas of his childhood. The threats, the kidnappings, the murders. The imagined curses of a people born centuries earlier, passed from father to son, mother to daughter, generation to generation. Its climax came in human form, a monster of a man, one of the most notorious serial killers the nation has ever seen: Pee Wee Gaskins. And Gaskins had a particular hatred for the Player family, then for David, himself, who barely escaped those years with his own life intact.

Now David is back, his four children in tow, visiting his parents' home, a place he has learned to cherish despite the evils that haunted his younger days. But no sooner does he return than a stranger visits their doorstep, the son of Pee Wee Gaskins. In a terrifying display, right in front of the kids, the man utters threats until he chokes on his own tongue, sparking a series of events that drag David and his family back into the days of curses and murders, onto a path of unimaginable terror. That path leads to an old gothic tower in the woods, a place David had blocked from his memory, a house of horrors both past and present. The House of Tongues.

About James Dashner

James Dashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series (movies by Fox/Disney), including The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order, and The Fever Code, and the bestselling Mortality Doctrine series (The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives). Dashner was born and raised in Georgia, but now lives and writes in the Rocky Mountains.


Reviews

Whew, when you talk about generational curses, this was not what anybody had in mind. In this horror read, two families are entwined in a 200-year-old curse/pact. Why these people kept producing children knowing the outcome is beyond me, but here we are 200 years later. Poor David gets the crap end......more

David Player lleva 30 años intentando olvidar los traumas de su infancia. Las amenazas, los secuestros, los asesinatos. Las maldiciones imaginarias de un pueblo nacido siglos antes, pasaron de padre a hijo, de madre a hija, de generación en generación. Su clímax llegó en forma humana, nada más que l......more

Goodreads review by Rori

I don't know what to feel about this book it's really confusing and creepy at the same time. I mean obviously I like it. I read it in less than a day (I know less than a day!! I'm surprised as well)......more