The Thing Beneath the Nursery

About this book

They built the nursery above his mouth.

For ninety years, the creature beneath Marrow House has listened to children sleep, cry, and grow. He feeds on the sorrows they leave behind, holding the foundations steady while keeping his hunger under control.

Then a young girl knocks on the floor.

Tess knows something is listening. She hopes it might help. Because inside Marrow House, doors lock from the outside, children whisper through vents, and the woman entrusted with their care is planning a transfer no one can explain.

Bound beneath the building by an old agreement, the creature cannot simply leave. Helping the children means revealing himself—and confronting the hunger that makes their fear so tempting.

With fourteen children depending on him, he must find a way to break the house’s hold without bringing it down around them.

The Thing Beneath the Nursery is the third standalone story in the Halloween Collection, an unsettling tale of captivity, courage, and a misunderstood creature whose smallest act of kindness could change everything.