Click image to purchase from Amazon I’m a little biased towards books that showcase adventures indoors. For most of my life, I’ve had wonderful recurring dreams of exploring vast buildings full of interesting things. So The World House is the kind of book that’s right up my alley. But this house is scarier and more dangerous than my worst nightmares. All over the world, in varying time periods, people pick up a strange little box and find themselves transported to an odd and frightening place. Taxidermied animals come to life to attack the unwary, hallways extend into infinity, and dark spaces contain faceless phantoms. The house seems to contain everything you can imagine, except for one thing—a way out. At the top of the house is a locked room. In that room is a prisoner plotting his escape. If he gets out, he will destroy the world.