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By Adam Cesare
USA Today bestseller and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD
 
‘An author who knows how to make us afraid’ — Clive Barker
 
‘100% distilled nightmare juice. Adam Cesare notches up the horror to nigh-unbearable levels. Even my skin was screaming by the end of this book’—Nick Cutter

‘Adam Cesare makes his presence felt with Mercy House. 
A no-holds-barred combo of survival horror and the occult’—Laird Barron
 
‘A rowdy, gory, blood-soaked horror tale guaranteed to keep you up at night. . . 
Looking for the new face of horror? This is it right here’—Joe McKinney
 
Welcome to Mercy House, a state-of-the-art retirement home that appears perfectly clean and orderly . . . but something is turning the residents into monsters. Here you will find little mercy—only a shocking eruption of unfathomable horror.
 
Harriet Laurel notices the odour the moment she steps inside Mercy House, brought to the retirement home against her will by her son and his wife. In the early stages of dementia, Harriet has grown to resent her daughter-in-law for not providing grandchildren. Yet as she crosses the threshold, she notices her mind begins to sharpen. Then her hate begins to grow. . . 

Arnold Piper, an eighty-five-year-old ex-Marine, has always prided himself on self-reliance. But betrayed by his own body, he’s learning that surviving war-torn Korea was easier than facing the daily indignities of old age. And his worst trials are still to come.

Sarah Campbell, an idealistic nurse, is already stretched thin at the chronically understaffed Mercy House. Now her duties are about to take a terrifying turn. Can she survive the night. . . and her patients?