The Night Tenant: Your New Apartment Is Perfect. the Lease, However, States You Must Also Inhabit the Body of Its Previous, Comatose Owner for One Hour Each Night.

Your new apartment is perfect.Floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city. Hardwood floors. In-unit laundry. Downtown location. And the rent? An impossible $800 a month.The lease, however, has unusual terms.Subsection 47, buried in the fine print, states you must “share occupancy with the previous tenant’s remaining presence” for one hour each night. Midnight to 1 AM. You’ll be unconscious. You won’t remember.It’s just one hour. What could go wrong?Jordan is desperately sleeping in her car, one citation away from complete destitution. When apartment 23-C appears on her rental search at 2:47 AM, she signs before she can second-guess the decision.The first night, she loses an hour of memory.The second night, she wakes to evidence of activities she didn’t perform.The third night, she finds a note in her own handwriting: “I’m sorry. I didn’t want this either.”Olivia Sterling has been in a coma for four months.Her body lies in a hospital bed across the city. But her consciousness, trapped by the building that tried to kill her, returns every night at midnight, borrowing Jordan’s body for one desperate hour of freedom.Two strangers. One body. A building that feeds on their desperation.As Jordan discovers the horrifying truth about apartment 23-C, she faces an impossible choice: break the lease and return to homelessness, or stay and risk being consumed completely by an architecture designed to trap the desperate.But Olivia has been fighting the building for months. She knows its secrets. Its weaknesses. And she’s learned that the only way to survive isn’t individual escape; it’s partnership.Together, they might destroy the structure that’s destroying them.Or they might become its next permanent residents.”A visceral exploration of housing insecurity wrapped in supernatural horror. THE NIGHT TENANT doesn’t just scare you; it makes you rage at the systems that create such desperation.””Prasanth N.M. has crafted something rare: a horror novel where the true terror isn’t the haunted building but the economic conditions that force people to accept unconscionable terms just to survive.””Part psychological thriller, part social commentary, wholly terrifying. Jordan and Olivia’s forced partnership becomes a powerful meditation on consent, autonomy, and collective resistance against predatory systems.”Content notes: Body horror, consciousness violation, housing insecurity, economic exploitation, themes of bodily autonomy and consentGenre: Supernatural Psychological Horror ThrillerArchitecture should shelter, not consume.Buildings should heal, not hunger.But when rent is cheap enough, desperate people will sign anything.Even their consciousness.THE NIGHT TENANTA NovelPrasanth N.M.