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Something Bad Happened Here

A Horrifying Haunted House Novella

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Something Bad Happened Here

By: Zoe Rosi
Narrated by: Andy Stevenson
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Lost and unmoored after her mother’s death, Carmen drifts from place to place. Moving from one Airbnb to the next, she is a ghost in the towns she passes through—an outsider, never quite belonging.

With her inheritance dwindling away, and determined to stop drifting, Carmen decides it’s time to settle. Time to buy a little house, close the door, and try to rebuild her life.

When she finds a surprisingly cheap property on a nice street, Carmen thinks she’s struck gold, until the estate agent hesitates. The house has a history, she warns. Something unspeakable happened there. A murder so brutal she can barely bring herself to describe it.

But Carmen isn’t easily spooked. The house wasn’t to blame. And a bargain is a bargain. Ghosts aren’t real. Hauntings are just superstition.

Yet, as Carmen turns her key in the lock, a thought haunts her:
What if she’s wrong?
What if walls really do remember?

Something Bad Happened Here is a chilling haunted house story which deals with themes of spirits and possession. It will appeal to fans of The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty and Come Closer by Sara Gran.

©2025 Zoe Rosi (P)2026 Zoe Rosi Anthologies & Short Stories Psychological Short Stories Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Haunted Scary
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Having really enjoyed listening to ‘Courier’, Zoe Rosi’s other psychological thriller novella, also narrated by Andy Stevenson, I was keen to grab this new release. I wasn’t disappointed and listened to its 4 hours-plus content in two sessions.

Carmen is a single woman in her thirties who has just suffered a bereavement and wants to move from London back to Oxford where she was brought up. She is suffering from grief and a degree of loneliness, but now with an inheritance, she feels that she can start again in a new home back in the area that holds so many fond memories for her.

Seeing online a lovely, neat house for sale at an attractive price in a village just outside the city, she arranges a viewing with the estate agent. But the house has a ‘past’, and as the story progresses, Carmen’s optimism and hope for renewal turns into fear and despair…..and something else.

Zoe Rosi delivers her stories with a simple but skilful style of writing that engages and absorbs the reader/listener and her uncanny ability to gradually build the tension, whilst never fully confirming as to what exactly is causing it, really draws you in. And, as with Courier, the ending is such that your rattled mind is given a licence to think, imagine and conjure up potential alternative scenarios.

As with Courier, I loved the narration of Andy Stevenson. I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks and his ability to deliver and act out convincing voices for both male and female characters and even children is, in my opinion, unrivalled.

So this comes highly recommended, but if you are of a sensitive disposition and don’t like the occasional profanities, you might need to brace yourself!

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Zoe Rosi is one of my favourite authors and this was another enjoyable dark and twisted story with a Hammer House Of Horror slant.
Definitely check her out. Pretty Evil and The Courier are BRILLIANT!!

Another Zoe Rosi Success

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