Résumé (jaquette) : Lauren Cochran has just found the house of her dreams. It's Victorian, remote, elegant... and haunted ! Of course, Lauren doesn't know it's haunted. She thinks it's the perfect place to hole up, rid herself of a persistent writer's block and write the Gothic novels that assure her comfortable lifestyle. Lauren will soon have enough bone-shivering experiences to fill a dozen novels, because she's about to discover that her agoraphobia (an extreme fear of the outside world) is nothing compared to the terror that lurks within the doomed house of The Nesting. Things are eerie from start. Windows break. Victrolas mysteriously play. The typewriter taps out strange messages. Apparitions appear. Lauren, attractive, uptight, creative and slightly nutsy, is willing to write these events off as the weird imaginings of her own dark, inner world. Then the gory murders begin. (...)