House Next Door, The

Brand New House, Evil House Author: Anne Rivers Siddons When I finally got Covid and was stuck isolating (and going stir crazy) in the bedroom, I picked up The House Next Door. I quickly forgot about my sick room with its twisted sheets and balls of Kleenex, and was instead transported into a normal, happy world that was slowly, insidiously turning inside out. The clatter of ice in drinks, the comforting days of sitting on a porch with a friend, the curiosity about the transformation of a vacant lot next door, all captured me with the lulling slowness of a good [...]