Author Description

Calliope Street is a psychedelic horror novel reminiscent of Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco, T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones, and Dario Argento's surreal horror film Suspiria. Jack and Avery's new home on Calliope Street is a fixer-upper's dream. The lurid collage of pornographic clippings on the basement wall seems like a quirky (and campy) feature. But once the house awakens, what seemed harmless becomes as horrifying as the blood seeping from the carpet. The house is alive. It is intelligent. And it demands homage. Inspired by the surreal and graphic films of the Italian maestros as well as a meditation on obsession and the relationship between tragedy and art, Calliope Street evokes the myth of Orpheus and Euridice, mixing art, love, and death into a modern take on the haunted house.