Father, mother, the mentally retarded son and uncle Treppie share a decaying house surrounded by promiscuity.

Tiny car workshops were somehow crammed along there between the cramped decaying houses.

So after that first year as friends, when Lissy proposed they share a large apartment on the ground floor of a decaying but gorgeous old house, Sylvie was game.

"Only you would say so--being pursued and threatened by thieves, having a whole family of children put in your care, being burdened with an old, decaying house."

He then flees the decaying house as the horror destroys the last surviving resident, Nahum.

The decaying houses were set close, people living in cramped quarters, huddling together against the cold.

The third book, moves the action to a more sinister level where Mrs Croker, presumed dead, returns to her old decaying house somewhere in London.

Hiding the car in the garage, he sets out to explore the decaying house, when a woman inside calls to him.

I heard the emptiness of the decaying house from the stairs.

Immediately upon entering Bailey's house, the brothers are greeted by rank smells, a decaying house, and the rotting corpse of Elnora Bailey.