Yiğit Turhan was born in Ankara, Turkey. A lifelong reader, he owes his love of horror to his grandmother and the films she shared with him. He has previously published a horror novel in Turkish. He lives in Milan, Italy, where he holds a C-suite role at a renowned fashion house.
Their Monstrous Hearts is his English-language debut.
At CrimeReads Turhan tagged ten great haunted house novels full of atmosphere and secrets. One title on the list:
House of Leaves by Mark DanielewskiRead about another entry on the list.
A house that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside—this premise alone is enough to unsettle you. I’ve read this novel multiple times, and each experience felt entirely different; it’s one of those rare literary mazes where the author steps back, leaving you alone to navigate its twisting passages. You’re left searching for your own answers in a book that is itself a puzzle. Creepy, disorienting, and uniquely formatted—Danielewski even did the typesetting himself. I can’t recommend it enough; this easily makes my top three books that I wish I had written.
House of Leaves is among Sara Flannery Murphy's five top thriller & horror books with “House” in the title and Michael J. Seidlinger's eight most genuinely terrifying novels ever written.
--Marshal Zeringue
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