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Some doors are better left closed . . .

In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever.

A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago.

Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . .

Apartment 16 is another gripping novel full of suspense and horror from Adam Nevill, twice winner of the August Derleth award.

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Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream Source: SFX

An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born. Source: Maxim Jakubowski --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream Source: SFX

An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born. Source: Maxim Jakubowski

Not since reading Stephen King’s It has a book managed to instill such a feeling of fear and disquiet in me Source: fantasybookreview.co.uk

A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best Source: Black Static --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . . --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Adam Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the supernatural horror novels Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days, House of Small Shadows, No One Gets Out Alive and Lost Girl as well as The Ritual and Last Days which both won The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel, and the RUSA for Best in Category: Horror. Adam lives in Birmingham, England. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream (SFX)

An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born. (Maxim Jakubowski)

Not since reading Stephen King’s It has a book managed to instill such a feeling of fear and disquiet in me (fantasybookreview.co.uk)

A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best (Black Static) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Apartment 16 is a story of spine-tingling terror from Britain’s award-winning ‘master of horror’, Adam Nevill. Perfect for fans of Stephen King. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Adam Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the supernatural horror novels including Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, House of Small Shadows, No One Gets Out Alive and Lost Girl as well as The Ritual and Last Days which both won The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel, and the RUSA for Best in Category: Horror. Adam lives in Birmingham, England. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian, who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of her eccentric relative, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And that the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . . 'Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman, and Apartment 16 is . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream' SFX 'An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born' Maxim Jakubowski --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian, who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of her eccentric relative, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building. And that the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying . . . 'Nevill proves himself to be a first-rate literary bogeyman, and Apartment 16 is . . . a gloriously gruesome fever dream' SFX 'An impeccable slice of modern horror with a traditional sense of dread and unerring "keep the light on" suspense. A new British horror star is forcefully born' Maxim Jakubowski --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003N2QUZ6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor; Main Market edition (20 May 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1967 KB
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Adam L.G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is an author of horror fiction. Of his novels, 'The Ritual', 'Last Days', 'No One Gets Out Alive' and 'The Reddening' were all winners of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. He has also published three collections of short stories, with 'Some Will Not Sleep' winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2017.

Imaginarium adapted 'The Ritual' (2016) and 'No One Gets Out Alive' (2020) into feature films and several other works are currently in development for the screen.

Adam also offers three free books to readers of horror: 'Cries from the Crypt', downloadable from his website, and 'Before You Sleep' and 'Before You Wake' are available from major online retailers.

The author lives in Devon, England. More information about the author and his books is available at: www.adamlgnevill.com

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Surajit

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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 8 May 2014

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I am a big fan of The Ritual and Last Days. Apartment 16 leaves much to be desired. The author in order to focus on the storyline has leaft a rambling incoherent structure.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 16 January 2016

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not upto the mark.

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Alan Taylor

Apartment 16

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 June 2022

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Been meaning to read this one for a good long while, but for some reason it kept evading me. I wasn’t disappointed at all, it was one of the best of Adam Nevill for me, up there with “Last Days”. Like “Last Days” and “Under A Watchful Eye” this one deals more with the unseen world, a hellish place filled with lost, broken, evil souls. The gateway to this hell is locked away for safety behind the door of Apartment 16, a place previously (and currently) occupied by a painter obsessed with death, deformity and the occult.
I often use the words slow burning with Adam Nevill because that’s essentially how the majority of his works play out, he sketches in the macabre and the evil creeping into our world, slowly revealing this ancient, featureless horrors that creak and ooze in only the darkest places. This one is definitely no different in that regard.
The characters here were all pretty good, I’ve worked the night shift in dark old places like Seth and felt the feeling of being trapped working night shifts with little escape. So his side of the story and his descent into madness was interesting. The other main POV being Apryl from where we learn more of the historical background of the characters.
All in all it was brilliant this one, also has some call backs to his first novel as well as some ideas ie puppets he would pick up on later down the line. Excellent and well worth a read.

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Rose

I think there’s a line from a song here somewhere

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 February 2022

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So, what’s the song/ Well, Hotel California of course. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave. it’s a shabby building that’s seen better days and there’s something there you don’t want to see. It’s twisty and there are remnants of other novels in the text but still, it’s a dark sort of book. Can’t say any of the characters are exactly pleasant but they are what they are and they are who they are and that’s all there is to it. So, that’s how the other half lives then. No, it’s a good book actually. I read it in one sitting simply because I wanted to see how it ended and what happened. Did April survive. well, read it and find out.

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Green Man Music

You'll Never Leave

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 22 August 2010

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Apartment 16 is a novel largely set in an exclusive block of apartments in London. The lead character, Apryl, inherits the apartment and arrives to find Barrington House a strange place full of eccentric inhabitants, dark secrets, and rooms with prohibited access.

The story follows the parallel lives of Apryl and Seth, one of the night-staff at the hotel, whose paths don't generally cross. As Apryl delves into her Great Aunt's history and the building's past and begins to unearth strange secrets, she attempts to find the truth from some of the elderly and cantankerous inhabitants of the apartment that knew her Great Aunt. Meanwhile Seth is lured to Apartment 16 by strange nocturnal noises, and eventually starts having visions and conversations with a mysterious hooded boy, before succumbing to an almost possessed art-frenzy, in the style of a Hieronymus Bosch-esqe painter called Hessen who used to live in the apartment.

As their stories begin to come together, Apryl joining a small fanatical almost cult-like group of Hessen appreciators, and Seth converting the walls of his bedsit into a grotto of Hessen imagery, it begins to become clear that what lies in the depths of Apartment 16 that keeps the building's occupants prisoners and slowly drives them mad, is a nightmare of Lovecraftian proportions.

Apartment 16 is a well-written and well paced book that remains pretty original despite clear nods to some works that have gone before it involving buildings and pictures with portals: Lovecraft's " The Picture in the House " and " The Dreams in the Witch House " are two, and films like " Toolbox Murders " with magic-working runes disguised as art painted on each level (itself a film carrying references to Polanski's " The Tenant " whose protagonist is driven crazy by the building's eccentric occupants).

The claustrophobia of the building and its ability to prevent occupants from traveling too far away are vividly portrayed and the book genuinely has a dark, dismal, and sinister feel about it and finishes with a nice twist about another character in the story, and that Lovecraftian note of futility; that some of the story's characters have merely had a lucky escape from something malevolent and much more powerful than them.

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Nurrie

Starts great, ends weakly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 June 2012

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The prologue hooked me in completely, it gave me the chills. And for the first third of the book that sense of fear and creepiness carried over well. I read the first few chapters in the book before I went to sleep and had a nightmare about it, it was great. I enjoyed seeing two faces of London, one from Apryl's view and one from Seth's, one sees something amazing, the other sees something much darker.

Unfortunately, once the writer goes into great detail of the horror, the descriptions can get too much or too confusing or both and that causes it to lose a lot of the fear factor, and sometimes you need to re-read over several of his passages to makes sense of it. I think this is a story, with all the descriptions, would have work better if it was communicated through a visual media like film rather than in book form.

The middle loses a lot of pacing. Some scenes could have been shortened or even omitted. Once scene, with the Hessen's fan club really led to nowhere, it didn't add to the creepiness.

There was also too much revealed too soon, too many times the creature flashed in the corner of your eye that you got desensitised to it and it became mundane by the end of the book.

As for the ending, it didn't feel like an ending, it stopped far too abruptly for me, as if the writer didn't know how to end it properly, all this build up leads to something that is over very quickly, which left you unfilled by the final encounter. And I like happy endings, sad endings, endings where the good guys win and ending where the bad guys win but I wasn't a fan of this ending. It was unfulfilling.

Basically, it's a book that had a great, strong start, lots of promise, but slowed down and ended weakly.

ruth1044

apartment sixteen by adam neville

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 August 2011

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This started off a really good read,but unfortunately about halfway through it started to drag; the explanations of the things going on in the porters mind, who was being pulled into the happenings in apartment sixteen, for me, became too involved and some times i felt some of it un-neccessary and too long drawn out- pages of how he was feeling, i like stories to have a faster pace.Having said that, i did want to carry on reading, and i didnt find it difficult to work out what was going on.Obviously there was a presence with evil intent not only in the apartment but it had followed some of the inhabitants of the building outside and had great influence on them all,who it was and what it wanted was brought to light by a young American girl,who had come to sort out the apartment of her relative whom she had never met but had bequeathed the property to her.T he last few chapters did pick up and the ending was action packed and not so good for some of the characters,i liked this book, but only after i had finished and thought about it. it is a shame i just had that glitch in the middle,where i nearly put it down and didnt pick it up again,probably many readers will feel that what i thought was too much explanation, they will find quite in order.

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