Warning: Extreme and disturbing mixture of horror and science fiction.
Two small-town cops. One blood-soaked survivor. A nightmare in the woods.
A chilling mashup of The Troop, by Nick Cutter, and The Ritual, by Adam Nevill—cosmic horror in the backwoods of rural Georgia, where something monstrous awaits two unsuspecting lawmen.
Officers Bill Jensen and Jason Willard expect a quiet night on patrol, until a battered, naked woman stumbles into the glow of their headlights. Her story about a sadistic killer leads them deep into the woods of rural Georgia, to a decaying house that might just be the last stop for missing women.
Inside, Bill finds a chamber known as The Playroom. A surgical chair surrounded on all sides by instruments of torture.
But that isn't the worst of it.
"I couldn't put it down, had to keep reading. I'm a big Stephen King fan, and although no one can come close, I got a similar satisfaction from this book." —Amazon Review
As Bill searches the house, he uncovers a monstrous truth: the killer isn't working alone. Something ancient lives beneath the house. And it's hungry.
"...The author is really talented, and in the most suspenseful moments, I was every bit as enthralled as I've felt in my favorite Stephen King novels." —Amazon Review
A terrifying blend of backwoods horror, sci-fi horror, and cosmic dread, The Playroom is a gritty, fast-paced standalone horror novel perfect for fans of Stephen King, The Ritual, and alien creature thrillers like The Tommyknockers or Scott Smith's The Ruins.
For readers who enjoy:
Two small-town cops. One blood-soaked survivor. A nightmare in the woods.
A chilling mashup of The Troop, by Nick Cutter, and The Ritual, by Adam Nevill—cosmic horror in the backwoods of rural Georgia, where something monstrous awaits two unsuspecting lawmen.
Officers Bill Jensen and Jason Willard expect a quiet night on patrol, until a battered, naked woman stumbles into the glow of their headlights. Her story about a sadistic killer leads them deep into the woods of rural Georgia, to a decaying house that might just be the last stop for missing women.
Inside, Bill finds a chamber known as The Playroom. A surgical chair surrounded on all sides by instruments of torture.
But that isn't the worst of it.
"I couldn't put it down, had to keep reading. I'm a big Stephen King fan, and although no one can come close, I got a similar satisfaction from this book." —Amazon Review
As Bill searches the house, he uncovers a monstrous truth: the killer isn't working alone. Something ancient lives beneath the house. And it's hungry.
"...The author is really talented, and in the most suspenseful moments, I was every bit as enthralled as I've felt in my favorite Stephen King novels." —Amazon Review
A terrifying blend of backwoods horror, sci-fi horror, and cosmic dread, The Playroom is a gritty, fast-paced standalone horror novel perfect for fans of Stephen King, The Ritual, and alien creature thrillers like The Tommyknockers or Scott Smith's The Ruins.
For readers who enjoy:
- Creature horror and cosmic horror
Serial killer thrillers with a supernatural twist
Inhuman monsters
Horror books on Kindle Unlimited
Scary stories set in the rural South
Read it now—if you dare enter The Playroom.
Updated and revised, August 2024
Genre: Horror
Used availability for Wallace Henry's The Playroom