Overview
Winner of the 2024 LA Times Book Prize Winner of the 2024 Lammy Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Comic New York Times' Notable Book of 2023 Winner of the 2024The Doug Wright Award for Best Book In E.M. Carroll's haunting adult graphic novel horror story A Guest in the House, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to realize that there's a dark mystery surrounding his former wife's death. After many lonely years, Abby's just gotten married. She met her new husband--a recently widowed dentist--when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it's strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband's first wife, the more things don't add up. And Abby starts to wonder . . . was Sheila's death really by natural causes? As Abby sinks deeper into confusion, Sheila's memory seems to become a force all its own, ensnaring Abby in a mystery that leaves her obsessed, fascinated, and desperately in love for the first time in her life. E.M. Carroll's masterful balance of black and white, surreal colors, rich textures, and dramatic lettering is assured to bring this story to life and give readers a chill up their spine as they read.
Full Product Details
Author: E M Carroll
Publisher: First Second
Imprint: First Second
Dimensions:
Width: 18.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.839kg
ISBN: 9781250255525
ISBN 10: 125025552
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""With the hypnotically brilliant A Guest in the House, phantasmagoria meets family psychodrama. I'm left agape and haunted, and wanting more."" --Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club ""Carroll brings her trademark sensual grotesquerie to this deep character study, braiding the gristly threads of a woman's everyday mundanity with a lush and sordidly brutal dreamscape. As melancholic and erotic collide, A Guest in the House evolves into a modern horror masterpiece."" --Sloane Leong, cocreator of Graveneye ""While the ending might invite more questions than answers, the wild turns taken and the dazzling visuals make this one scary good""--Publisher's Weekly"
"""Carroll brings her deliciously disquieting style to this gothic tale of a new marriage and the sinister secrets lurking beneath the veneer of cozy domesticity.""--Booklist, starred review ""With the hypnotically brilliant A Guest in the House, phantasmagoria meets family psychodrama. I'm left agape and haunted, and wanting more."" --Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club ""Carroll brings her trademark sensual grotesquerie to this deep character study, braiding the gristly threads of a woman's everyday mundanity with a lush and sordidly brutal dreamscape. As melancholic and erotic collide, A Guest in the House evolves into a modern horror masterpiece."" --Sloane Leong, cocreator of Graveneye ""While the ending might invite more questions than answers, the wild turns taken and the dazzling visuals make this one scary good""--Publisher's Weekly"
Author Information
E.M. Carroll is a writer and artist from Ontario, Canada. Their work includes Through the Woods (2014), a collection of short horror stories, the surreal erotic horror When I Arrived at the Castle (2019), and their latest, A Guest in the House (2023), which won the Lambda Literary Award and the LA Times Book Prize for best graphic novel. Many of their comics are available to read for free on their website emcarroll.com.
