{"product_id":"broke-down-house-c-s-hughes-9780645920451","title":"Broke Down House","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is horror with no clean escape.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBroke Down House\u003c\/i\u003e gathers eleven ink strange stories stitched with poetic dread and ruined beauty. Its characters stumble through collapsing homes, haunted towns, and inner derangements. Here, the ghosts are real - sometimes in flesh, sometimes in memory.\u003cp\u003eEleven tales, sometimes comic, sometimes sharp, sometimes jagged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003ePropellor\u003c\/b\u003e in the face of loss we spend a Christmas wondering whether we play with our ghosts or our ghosts play with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eCave Canem\u003c\/b\u003e a young constable learns to his regret the consequences of prejudice, assumption and illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003ePhantom\u003c\/b\u003e we wonder with a desperate young woman if the blood spiders from your nose are a physical symptom of revulsion as a psychic infection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eCarpe Diem\u003c\/b\u003e two old soldiers, now gravediggers prepare the way, wondering exactly who pulls their strings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eNatalie, La Luna and I\u003c\/b\u003e, in surrender to our strange inner voice, we put our face on and remember that summer we rode the ghost train.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eDarkest Matters\u003c\/b\u003e escaping after an experiment goes horribly right a young physics professor finds the secrets of the universe inside him carry a gravity and a weight that neither man nor nature can tolerate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eBroke Down House\u003c\/b\u003e we stutter through a repeated, expanding moment in which the thing on the lawn, at the window, on the stairs is alive, and you, dear reader, are the ghost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eSad Susan\u003c\/b\u003e for a group of teens in a graveyard at sunset local myth assumes an all too confronting shape, while, with a little more than the usual regrets, our narrator has his first kiss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eEmpire Of Broken Eyes\u003c\/b\u003e in Sydney in the 1930s a dodgy photographer's assistant wonders exactly what is beyond, in the fog at the end of that half finished bridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Farm Story, \u003c\/b\u003e when the bank forecloses on a Queensland farm, grandfather goes crazy and the cows all die. That's it. That's all that happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, in \u003cb\u003eAtchison, Topeka \u0026amp; Santa Fe 666\u003c\/b\u003e, with an incognito rock star and a safety engineer we listen closely to metal fatigue, learn about local Puebloan mythology, do some twitching, and contemplate the heights, and the depths of some historic railway bridges.\u003c\/p\u003eA literary horror collection that slumps into disorientation, trauma, and decay, \u003ci\u003eBroke Down House\u003c\/i\u003e will unsettle fans of weird fiction, body horror, and fractured domestic gothic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. S. Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0645920452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645920451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Otherly Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d","brand":"C. S. Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47760786456831,"sku":"9780645920451","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5d49c66-b76c-4e45-92a3-04ac654e6bbe.jpg?v=1765514214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/broke-down-house-c-s-hughes-9780645920451","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}