House

House is a 2006 Christian fiction novel co-authored by writers Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. It loosely ties in with Dekker's Books of History Chronicles via the Paradise books.

Plot summary
Jack and Stephanie Singleton, a married couple struggling through the death of their daughter and on the verge of a divorce, are driving to a counseling session when they find themselves lost on a deserted road in Alabama. Taking the advice of a highway patrolman, they head down a long dirt road, where they run over spikes, flattening all of their tires and stranding them. Fortunately, they are near an old Victorian house in the backwoods of Alabama, occupied by a family of three and being used as an inn. They check in and have a strangely mysterious dinner with them, as well as another dating couple, Randy and Leslie. Things begin to go bitter, however. Someone of the family, Peter, begins staring down Leslie, stating that he wants her as his "wife".

Then, to make matters worse, the lights turn off, and a suicidal maniac named Barsidious White locks them inside of the House. He throws them a tin can, with a message scrawled on it, stating that he has killed God and will murder all seven of them unless they kill one of their own by dawn.

All the people frantically move through the house, but just get trapped in each new room. They are trying to avoid the guy in the mask.

Connection to The Books of History Chronicles
House takes place in the same universe as The Paradise Novels (Showdown, Saint, and Sinner). In Saint, it is mentioned that Barsidious White was written into existence by Marsuuv Black

Film
A film adaption of the novel was released November 7th, 2008[1]. It was rated R for some violence and terror. It was the third film based on a Frank Peretti novel, and the second based on a Ted Dekker novel.