Bad Houses

John Elizabeth Stintzi

Bad Houses
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Country
CA
Published
1 November 2024
Pages
224
ISBN
9781551529615

Bad Houses

John Elizabeth Stintzi

A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humourous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Kelly Link.

In the surreal, often precarious realities of Bad Houses, a doctor discovers a double-edged cure for the Ebola virus, a college student loses a different body part each time they return home for the summer, Midas's hairdresser strives to keep his secrets, and a young girl develops a fascination with the trolls who harvest her father's pumpkin patch. At once humourous and horrifying, these stories will inevitably take residence in your mind.

Present throughout Bad Houses is a deep and abiding sense of humanity sprinkled with a dash of alienation, guilt, and instability. Filtered through a fabulist lens, these stories contemplate the struggles of modern existence. Each character lives their own haunted life, trying to navigate the path from bad houses to good homes.

Featuring the author's own expressive ink illustrations, Bad Houses is a book that feels like it was penned by a trans Alice Munro mixed with a bubblier Franz Kafka. Enter if you dare.

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