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Bad Houses

John Elizabeth Stintzi
2.6
(62)
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Duration
6h 40m
Year
2025
Language
English
Publisher
Bespeak Audio Editions

About

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

Related Subjects

  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Adult Fiction
  • Literary

Reviews

T'�nch�y Redvers gives a subdued but engaging performance of these strange fabulist stories. The characters, settings, and situations are creative and surreal and, at times, distinctly unsettling. An elephant decomposes in a couple's bed. A girl wonders about the lives of the trolls who work in her father's pumpkin patch. Houses are rarely what they seem. Redvers's narration is well-paced, and the
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Artists

John Elizabeth StintziAuthor
T'áncháy RedversReader