No One Gets Out Alive

by Adam Nevill · 2014

When cash‑strapped agency worker Stephanie Booth lands a cheap room at 82 Edgware Road, she thinks she’s finally escaped the grind of shared flats. The house, a sprawling, neglected Victorian in Birmingham’s Perry Bar district, seems merely odd at first—high ceilings, an overly friendly landlord named Knacker, and a handful of other female tenants. But the atmosphere quickly turns hostile. Whispers echo from behind the fireplace, unseen scratches crawl beneath the floorboards, and the night is filled with footsteps and distant weeping. As the landlord’s unsettling cousin Fergal arrives, the terror escalates, revealing that the house itself is a conduit for something far darker than any ordinary haunting. Trapped in a place where doors lock themselves and the walls seem to listen, Stephanie must confront the nightmarish forces that have claimed the building for years—if she hopes to get out alive.