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Anybody Home?

By Michael J. Seidlinger
Anybody Home? by Michael J. Seidlinger digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

What came first, the home or the desire to invade? 

A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions under their belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a new generation of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals of criminal history. From initial canvasing to home entry, the reader is complicit in every strangling and shattered window. The fear is inescapable.

Examining the sanctuary of the home and one of the horror genre's most frightening tropes, Anybody Home? points the camera lens onto the quiet suburbs and its unsuspecting abodes, any of which are potential stages for an invader ambitious enough to make it the scene of the next big crime sensation. Who knows? Their performance just might make it to the silver screen.

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“I’ve been searching for a horror book to truly freak me out for ages, and I thought this would be the perfect fit. Home invasion is one of my biggest fears, and the fact that this is written as an invader talking to you, the reader, as if you are another invader, guiding you through the process, should terrify me. Unfortunately, the way this was written just made it boring to me. I wasn’t connected or in the story, the constant repetition of the same sentences annoyed me to no end, and it just made a scary situation clinically detached. Additionally, the typos in the book kind of pissed me off. I had high hopes when starting the book, though, because the beginning read so much like the movie Funny Games! Alas, not for me, and my search for a horror book to scare me continues.”
“Soft dnf’ed at the beginning of the year. Overall interesting twist on the home invasion troupe. Yet the POV/writing is what really threw me off and pushed me away from this one.”

About Michael J. Seidlinger

MICHAEL J. SEIDLINGER is a Filipino American author of Runaways: A Writer's Dilemma, Scream (part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series), and other books. He has written for, among others, Wired, Buzzfeed, Thrillist, Goodreads, The Observer, Polygon, The Believer, and Publishers Weekly. He teaches at Portland State University and has led workshops at Catapult, Kettle Pond Writer's Conference, and Sarah Lawrence.

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