The Apartment

'Gripping, creepy as hell, and the dread will linger for days afterwards' Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

Mark and Steph are left traumatized when armed robbers break into their home and brutally attack them. Shaken, they decide to get away and leave their troubles behind. A house swap in Paris with a couple they meet online, the Petits, seems to provide the perfect escape. But upon arriving for a week's luxurious break, they find themselves in a festering, run-down apartment. And when Steph attempts to contact the Petits, she gets no answer.

Unable to relax following a series of increasingly unsettling events, they decide to return home. Yet when they arrive, neither of them can shake the feeling that there's now something sinister about their own house. As time passes, Mark is terrorized by a series of unsettling visions. But is it all in his imagination or is there a far more worrying explanation . . . ?

'Dark and deeply disturbing. Trust me, this tense and frightening piece of horror is not for kids, or for the faint-of-heart. I'm still shuddering' R. L. Stine