The Sound Behind The Wall
About
After thirty-four years in the same weatherworn farmhouse on Dagger Lane, Tommy Hearst thought he knew every creak and whisper the old place could conjure. But when he uncovers a rotting corpse sealed behind wallpaper and hears his dead mother's voice carved into mirrors, he realizes the house isn't haunted—it's alive.
As the walls breathe and whisper secrets long buried, Tommy is pulled into a horrifying family legacy—one bound in blood, sealed with silence, and broken by his very birth. Something ancient stirs beneath the floorboards. Something that has been waiting. Watching. Hungering for the debt that was never paid.
To stop it, Tommy must relive a history twisted by pact and sacrifice—and face the truth: he wasn't just born in this house. He was built for it. And now, the walls want him back.
Praise for this book
“The Sound Behind the Wall” is the kind of horror that crawls under your skin and whispers to your bones. Stephanie Tyo doesn’t just write haunted houses—she breathes life into places that eat. From that unforgettable line—“It was awake”—to the slow reveal of a corpse hand, every chapter ratchets up the dread until you’re too afraid to blink.
”The story’s terror evolves with precision: silence becomes weaponized, static flickers with menace, and trauma becomes a tool sharpened by the house itself. But it’s not just scares for the sake of it—this book pulses with emotional intelligence. From Tommy’s chilling warnings to a baby's mouth speaking love corrupted, the horror is deeply human. Tyo delivers an ending that doesn’t offer escape, only the dreadful certainty that the house will return… and it will be hungry.”
A slow-burning descent into psychological horror, The Sound Behind the Wall doesn’t just haunt—it rewrites reality. Tyo masterfully blends trauma, silence, and memory into a narrative where every chapter deepens the house’s insatiable hunger and its grip on the living.
“The Sound Behind the Wall” creeps in quietly and devours you whole. Stephanie Tyo delivers haunting imagery, chilling moments like “It was awake,” and emotional terror rooted in love gone wrong. This isn’t just a haunted house—it’s a living nightmare that never ends.
This book rips. From corpse hands to ghost-dads and creepy babies, Tyo serves terror with surgical precision. The Sound Behind the Wall is relentless, brutal, and unforgettable—horror that infects, teaches, and promises it’s far from over.
The Sound Behind the Wall transcends haunted house tropes to become a meditation on memory, guilt, and inherited trauma. With imagery that feels ripped from a fever dream—pale hands clawing beams, flickering static warnings, and walls that breathe—Tyo’s prose unearths a home that doesn't merely haunt—it remembers. What begins with creaks and knocks escalates into a psychological reckoning where grief takes shape and love is rewritten. Gothic, intimate, and shiver-inducing, this is horror with teeth and heart.
This book isn’t just scary—it’s cinematic. As a film student, I saw every shot. Each chapter builds like a scene: flickering lights, a woman in a rocking chair, eyes behind wallpaper. You can feel the dread in your bones. The writing is script-sharp and visceral. If this ever becomes a short film, I’m first in line. The house doesn’t just hold secrets—it demands sacrifices.
Absolutely chilling! From the first knock to the last page, this book had me hooked. That line—‘It was awake’—still gives me goosebumps. Every chapter adds a new layer of terror, like the breathing wall and the messages in the mirror. But it’s not just the scares—the emotional depth makes it unforgettable. This house doesn’t let you go. I couldn’t stop reading, even when I wanted to close the book and hide!
This is horror that teaches. Tyo doesn’t just serve scares—she gives us a sentient house that evolves with each victim. From Tommy’s guilt to Melanie’s fierce maternal arc, this book shows how identity, memory, and trauma become battlegrounds. Every page has teeth. Every silence is a scream. The Sound Behind the Wall doesn’t end. It echoes.
A house that hungers. A past that refuses silence. A family caught in the echo. In Stephanie Tyo’s masterful horror novel, secrets bleed through the walls—literally. With razor-sharp prose, cinematic tension, and emotional resonance, The Sound Behind the Wall is an unforgettable journey into inherited dread. Once the house awakens, no one escapes unchanged