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Bad Houses by John Elizabeth Stintzi (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Bad Houses is a collection of short stories by John Elizabeth Stintzi that explore the theme of haunted houses. The book is published by Arsenal Pulp Press and is a first edition released in 2024. The trade paperback has 264 pages and measures 8 inches in length, 6 inches in width, and 0.7 inches in height. The book is intended for adult readers and is written in English. The narrative type is fiction and the genre is literary with absurdist elements. The book is part of the 2024 series and has special attributes that make it unique. It weighs 12.7 ounces and is manufactured in China. If you enjoy short stories about haunted houses, Bad Houses is a must-read for you.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArsenal Pulp Press

ISBN-101551529610

ISBN-139781551529615

eBay Product ID (ePID)10065854447

Product Key Features

Book TitleBad Houses

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Absurdist, Literary, Lgbt / General

Publication Year2024

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Elizabeth Stintzi

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"This adventurous and offbeat collection blends fantastical motifs and myths with comic stories of contemporary life ... Stintzi exhibits a flair for fearlessly bizarre character sketches and macabre scenes. Fans of Kelly Link ought to snatch this up." --Publishers Weekly "John Elizabeth Stintzi blends the absurd, the surreal, or the deeply unlikely into these short fictions that are ultimately about our messy, mundane humanity. Playing with the tropes of horror, folklore, and legend, the unrealities of Bad Houses hold up a funhouse mirror to our lives." --Quill and Quire "Bad Houses is a rare, incomparable collection, surreal yet firmly anchored to the mechanics of contemporary living. Mimes, dismemberment, pumpkin patch trolls, creatures made of mould and laundry--these are not run-of-the-mill stories, and yet in every case, John Elizabeth Stintzi's depth of feeling and concern for what it means to be in the world right now shines through. This is a work of art in just about every sense." --Omar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise "Stintzi paints a portrait of our current moment from a dizzying array of vantage points. A poet laureate of calamity." --Michael DeForge, cartoonist of Birds of Maine "These modern-day fairy tales are a seamless mesh of the familiar and the surreal--a cocktail that mirrors the oddness and absurdity of everyday life." --Peter Deligdisch, visual artist and creator of Peter Draws, "Bad Houses is a rare, incomparable collection, surreal yet firmly anchored to the mechanics of contemporary living. Mimes, dismemberment, pumpkin patch trolls, creatures made of mould and laundry--these are not run-of-the-mill stories, and yet in every case, John Elizabeth Stintzi's depth of feeling and concern for what it means to be in the world right now shines through. This is a work of art in just about every sense." --Omar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise "Stintzi paints a portrait of our current moment from a dizzying array of vantage points. A poet laureate of calamity." --Michael DeForge, cartoonist of Birds of Maine "These modern-day fairy tales are a seamless mesh of the familiar and the surreal--a cocktail that mirrors the oddness and absurdity of everyday life." --Peter Deligdisch, visual artist and creator of Peter Draws, "Bad Houses is a rare, incomparable collection, surreal yet firmly anchored to the mechanics of contemporary living. Mimes, dismemberment, pumpkin patch trolls, creatures made of mould and laundry--these are not run-of-the-mill stories, and yet in every case, John Elizabeth Stintzi's depth of feeling and concern for what it means to be in the world right now shines through. This is a work of art in just about every sense." --Omar El Akkad, Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise "These modern-day fairy tales are a seamless mesh of the familiar and the surreal--a cocktail that mirrors the oddness and absurdity of everyday life." --Peter Deligdisch, visual artist and creator of Peter Draws, "John Elizabeth Stintzi blends the absurd, the surreal, or the deeply unlikely into these short fictions that are ultimately about our messy, mundane humanity. Playing with the tropes of horror, folklore, and legend, the unrealities of Bad Houses hold up a funhouse mirror to our lives." --Quill and Quire "Bad Houses is a rare, incomparable collection, surreal yet firmly anchored to the mechanics of contemporary living. Mimes, dismemberment, pumpkin patch trolls, creatures made of mould and laundry--these are not run-of-the-mill stories, and yet in every case, John Elizabeth Stintzi's depth of feeling and concern for what it means to be in the world right now shines through. This is a work of art in just about every sense." --Omar El Akkad, Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author of What Strange Paradise "Stintzi paints a portrait of our current moment from a dizzying array of vantage points. A poet laureate of calamity." --Michael DeForge, cartoonist of Birds of Maine "These modern-day fairy tales are a seamless mesh of the familiar and the surreal--a cocktail that mirrors the oddness and absurdity of everyday life." --Peter Deligdisch, visual artist and creator of Peter Draws

SynopsisFrom John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. 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 Stintzi'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., A boisterous collection of surreal, darkly humorous short stories that will delight fans of George Saunders and Alice Munro From John Elizabeth Stintzi, the mind that created the daringly bizarre novel My Volcano, comes an electrifying collection of strange and dark tales. 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 humorous 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 Stintzi'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.