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124mm x 191mm, 312 pp
ISBN: 9781913689308

<strong><i>Signed HB edition of 200 copies: </i><em>£25
</em></strong><i></i><em><strong>Paperback: £14.99</strong></em>

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<p class="mq">"A compelling and wittily written tale where omens lie low in the elegant prose before it gathers monstrous menace and then raises us towards mystery and awe."
<strong>Ramsey Campbell</strong></p>
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<em>Do you know the language of the birds?</em>
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Summer, 1979: A lonely young woman housesitting in an isolated bohemian enclave finds troubling reminders of a past family tragedy surfacing in odd and unsettling ways. When a mysterious man moves in next door, Dovey hopes for a romance like the ones in the novels she secretly devours. But a dark truth, hidden since childhood, erupts shockingly in a violent otherworldly intrusion, catapulting her into a desperate struggle for her life and sanity.

Set in a haunted northern California landscape populated by poets, New Agers, stoners, and burnouts, <em>Neighbor George</em> is a deeply atmospheric story of psychological horror enacted in the space where the natural and supernatural collide, a mythic territory of possession shared by its comic companion tale, <em>Bolinas Venus</em>, also included in this volume.

"If Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock had collaborated to write a novel that would scare you senseless, they might have come up with Victoria Nelson's <i>Neighbor George</i>. Lulled for the first few pages by Nelson's brilliant description of Bolinas, a laid-back, eccentric small town in West Marin, California, you may soon find yourself double locking your doors and searching frantically for a nightlight as Nelson piles on twist after unexpected twist, horror after unexpected horror in this deadly dance of predator and prey."
<strong>Mary Mackey</strong>, author of <em>A Grand Passion.
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<p class="mq">"In this vivid page-turning gothic novel centered around the wry portrait of a decaying California left-coast hamlet on the fog-bound Pacific, a thirst-for-life quest turns ominously into a journey into self-abolishment and murder as Victoria Nelson exposes old lust meeting young need and New Age wacky mantras colliding with hungry ghosts seeking souls in a bohemian utopia haunted by restless spirits and death drives. Light-drenched and wit filled, brilliantly composed, <i>Neighbor George</i> will join canonical California novels like Maxine Hong Kingston's <i>Tripmaster Monkey</i>, Denis Johnson's <i>Almost Dead</i>, Thomas Pynchon's <i>Vineland</i>, and Louis B. Jones's <i>California's Over</i>."
<strong>Rob Sean Wilson, </strong>author of<em> Waking in Seoul</em>, <em>Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted</em>, and <em>Beat Attitudes.</em></p>
<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR
</strong><strong>Victoria Nelson</strong> is the author of two acclaimed cultural histories of the supernatural, <em>The Secret Life of Puppets</em> and <em>Gothicka</em>, two collections of short stories, and a memoir. She edited the Robert Aickman collection <em>Compulsory Games</em> for New York Review Books.

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