The Bonus Room A Novel

From New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author Ben H. Winters, this supernatural page-turner about a real-estate nightmare will make you think twice about your dream home

Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment in a gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone.

Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.

Big mistake. Susan awakens every morning with fresh bug bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter, Emma, has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean. Susan fears she’s going mad—until she makes a chilling discovery in the bonus room.

Filled with Hitchcockian suspense, The Bonus Room is a horrifying tale of a dream home that becomes a nightmare.

Previously published in 2011 as Bedbugs.

Ben H. Winters is the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning, and Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Quiet Boy, Golden State, Underground Airlines, The Last Policeman and its two sequels, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and several works for young readers. His first novel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, was a Times bestseller. Ben was a producer on the FX show Legion, and on the upcoming Apple TV+ drama Manhunt. He lives in LA with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.