Unquiet Guests

By: Dan Coxon - editor, Chuck Palahniuk, Grady Hendrix, Kirsty Logan, Matthew Holness, Irenosen Okojie, Claire Fuller, Ally Wilkes, Will Maclean, Clay McLeod Chapman, Alison Moore, various authors

Narrated by: Diana Croft, Jenn Lee, Liam Gerrard, Imogen Church, Imani Jade Powers, Christopher Tester, Lynette R. Freeman, full cast

A house is more than just a place to lay your head at night.

Sometimes, the walls remember.

Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up.

From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

Featuring stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Grady Hendrix, Kirsty Logan, Will Maclean, Irenosen Okojie, Alison Moore, Matthew Holness, Claire Fuller, Clay McLeod Chapman, and Ally Wilkes.

©2025 “This House Is Not a Home: An Introduction” © 2025 by Dan Coxon; “I am the House” was originally published in Great British Horror 9: Something Peculiar © 2024 by Grady Hendrix; “Another Land Beneath” © 2025 by Claire Fuller; “The Toll” © 2025 by Will Maclean; “Deep Clean” © 2025 by Clay McLeod Chapman; “Lapse” © 2025 by Kirsty Logan; “Tearaways” © 2025 by Matthew Holness; “The Collector”s House” © 2025 by Ally Wilkes; “Rosheen” was originally published in Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold © 2020 by Irenosen Okojie; “It’s Dinnertime” © 2025 by Alison Moore; “Custodian” originally appeared on Substack © 2022 by Chuck Palahniuk (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

Cool premise

The stories were good and the premise for the short stories was really interesting. I really like the idea of putting human emotions to a house.