THE HOUSE THAT WASN’T THERE
“…utterly riveting. A meditation on trauma and loss, Andrew Forrest Baker has created iridescent stars to a constellation that you won’t fully connect until the last page. Simultaneously vivid and blurred, this book pulses with heart.”
-Jenny Sadre-Orafai, author of Dear Outsiders
PURCHASE
THE HOUSE THAT WASN’T THERE
Death just won’t leave Howard alone.
An alcoholic - three years sober - and still slinging drinks at a local queer watering hole, Howard can’t seem to shake the bizarre and uncanny endings of the folks around him. The untimely demise of the go go boy; the nail gun slip of the hardware store clerk; the defenestration of the girl upstairs: wherever he goes, it seems death follows. To make matters worse, his upwardly mobile partner, Reg, is away, leaving him to face all that Death, all that sweltering summer heat alone. It’s hard, Howard thinks, to not feel hopeless.
But when Reg returns, bringing with him all his joy and light, so too come the ghosts of Howard’s dead. They haunt him from the periphery, taunt him into madness, and guide him toward a truth he refuses to see.
They lead him to the House. The House that isn’t there. The House with the temper. The House which may consume him if Death has its way.
“Intense, intriguing, and philosophical, The House That Wasn't There is a modern approach to the gothic that feeds our biggest fears.”
-Inkish Kingdoms