#Spooktober ‘Thirteen Storeys’ by Jonathan Sims

About the book….

One apartment building, many stories. A chilling thriller that’s perfect for fans of grounded horror like Get Out, Us and It Follows.

A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers – even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building.

None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Besides a postcode, they share only one thing in common – they’ve all experienced an unsettling occurrence within the building’s walls.

By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests will say what happened.

His death remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries – until now.

HUGE thanks to Goolancz who kindly approved my Netgalley request to read ‘Thirteen Storeys’ which is published on November 26th in ebook and hardcover formats.

This is a very different, portmanteau selection of tales from different residents who all live,or work in Banyan Court.
The principle storyline is centered around the mysterious disappearance of architect and billionaire, Tobias Fell who dropped off the face of the earth following a dinner party with 13 residents from his property. The front of the building is there for those who have, whilst the back of the building is there for those without.
Each chapter is a self contained story, or ‘storey’ which concludes with someone having an invite to the fatal dinner, concluding with the thirteenth tale.
It’s a gory, an , excuse the pun, elevated tale that marks out Jonathan Sims as an author to watch. He plays his readers like a fiddle as you wander from room to room , meeting the residents of Banyan Court without fully seeing the whole picture until the end.
It reminded me of the Hammer and Amicus partwork films, like ‘Asylum’, with one overarching plot pulling the threads of a tale together, it’s a great autumnal/Halloween read and I have the feeling it will be very big when it hits bookstore shelves in November!

About the author…

Jonathan Sims is a writer, performer and games designer whose work primarily focuses on the macabre, the grotesque, and the gentle touch of creeping dread. He is the mind and the voice behind acclaimed horror podcast The Magnus Archives, as well as story-game design duo MacGuffin & Co., and some of your favourite nightmares. He lives in Walthamstow with the two best cats and an overwhelming backlog of books that he really should get round to.