A psychological thriller with supernatural overtones, The Birthing House is a tale of one man’s descent into madness, where fantasy and nightmare share the same bed.
In this brilliantly crafted ghost story, a young couple, Conrad and Joanna Harrison, attempt to save their marriage by starting anew in a rural turn-of-the-century former birthing house. One day, when Jo is away at work, the former owner bequeaths a photo album that “belongs to the house.” Thumbing through the antique photos of miserable midwives and pregnant girls in their nineteenth-century dresses, Conrad is chilled to the bone when he sees his own wife staring back at him with rage.
The Birthing House is a story of possession, sexual obsession, and ultimately murder, as a centuries-old crime is reenacted in the present with devastating consequences.
Christopher Ransom is a novelist and copywriter who works in big tech. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels, including The Birthing House, The People Next Door, and The Fading. During the five years he spent working on The Turn, he played more than four hundred rounds of golf, lowered his handicap by fifteen strokes, made two aces in the span of thirty-three days, lost twenty pounds, and ended his thirty-year run with alcohol. He lives in Longmont, Colorado. His home course is Twin Peaks.
Edward Herrmann (1943–2014) was one of America’s top audiobook narrators. He won multiple Audie Awards and twenty-two Earphones Awards, and his narration of the King James version of the Bible remains a benchmark in the industry.