THERE: a novel of manners

by Lonely Christopher

Fiction. Drama. Film. THERE is an intertextual horror story about a disastrous marriage. Jack and Wendy live in a haunted house with their son. Their situation happens to echo a popular genre novel that was later adapted into a film. And yet anything familiar to the reader is bizarrely distorted. There is constant forward motion but no linearity, heart-stopping terror but no ghost. Jack and Wendy exist where time and place are broken and there may be no escape. Lonely Christopher's first novel is an intellectually rigorous and emotionally riveting perversion of classic horror tropes that explores how people destroy each other. Behind every word is a nightmarish secret. Read it if you dare.

Genres: Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

Published December 12, 2017

About the author

LONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, several poetry chapbooks, and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

Reviews

[Justin Isis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lonely Christopher's fantastic take on THE SHINING. Minimal, poetic sentences like soft brush strokes sketch out the awkward, enclosed social horror of this 'novel of manners.'

[Yureka Eric Johnson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I honestly might feel like Luigi mangione but I'm like not actually like that