Permanent Residence: a Relentless Horror Novel Where the House Reveals Its Purpose and No One Escapes Book

The guesthouse is no longer hiding what it is. The systems are stable. The cycle is complete.When a structural engineer arrives to inspect the aging property, he believes decay, mold, and neglect explain the building’s condition. What he discovers instead is a structure that feeds on presence and repairs itself with people. New guests arrive—healthy, curious, unaware—and their vitality only accelerates what the house has been preparing for.Sarah no longer maintains appearances. She moves through rooms without sound, controls bodies without touch, and corrects problems with clinical efficiency. Floors soften. Walls breathe. Flesh merges with wood. The elderly figure on the porch is replaced again and again, a living component forced to keep the house operational.Attempts to escape collapse into looping roads and returning doors. Repairs only make things worse. Death is no longer disguised as accident or illness—it is administrative, precise, and final.Permanent Residence is the brutal conclusion to the Guesthouse trilogy, where the horror is no longer about survival but acceptance. The house doesn’t kill out of anger or hunger. It consumes to remain standing. When the sign flips back to VACANCY and the paint looks fresh, the next car is already turning in.