We Used to Live Here: A Novel

Written by Marcus Kliewer

Narrated by Jeremy Carlisle Parker and Corey Brill

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.

As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.

As soon as the strangers enter their home, uncanny and inexplicable things start happening, including the family’s youngest child going missing and a ghostly presence materializing in the basement. Even more weird, the family can’t seem to take the hint that their visit should be over. And when Charlie suddenly vanishes, Eve slowly loses her grip on reality. Something is terribly wrong with the house and with the visiting family—or is Eve just imagining things?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Jun 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9781797181288

Marcus Kliewer

Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion animator. His debut novel We Used to Live Here began life as a serialized short story on Reddit, where it won the Scariest Story of 2021 award on the NoSleep forum (eighteen million members). Film rights were snapped up by Netflix, and it was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the US for publication even before it had been extended into a full-length novel. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. 

Reviews for We Used to Live Here

[jackswastedlyfe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Left me wanting more. I need to know what is happening!!!

[sandra walters · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Well written but not for me. Extremely confusing which I believe is the desired effect- it certainly achieved that. But I did not enjoy it.