{"product_id":"your-house-is-on-fire-your-children-all-gone-isbn-9780143121466","title":"Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Jackson meets \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone\u003c\/i\u003e in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ \u003ci\u003eMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in  superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the  villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill  no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of  age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games  soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this  eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, infused with the  spirit of the Brothers Grimm and evocative of Stephen King‘s classic  short story “Children of the Corn” and the films \u003ci\u003eThe White Ribbon\u003c\/i\u003e by Michael Haneke and \u003ci\u003eVillage of the Damned \u003c\/i\u003eby Wolf Rilla.“Chilling . . . Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson . . . If you loved \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Ribbon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—or the trope of sinister children generally—Stefan Kiesbye’s \u003ci\u003eYour House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Chilling . . . inflicting both terror and wonder. . . . Kiesbye digs deep . . . and comes up with horrific gold. . . . There is just one word potent enough to describe [it]: the novel is sublime.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“As in Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery,’ the vague setting heightens the narrative tension. . . . Too subtle to be lurid yet too spooky for comfort, this book should appeal to readers of psychological fiction and literary tales of the supernatural.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] wicked novel . . . Stunning . . . [There is a] quiet, unnerving effect [to] Kiesbye’s Brothers Grimm–like prose. . . . An episodic, poetic, nightmarish offspring of Grace Metalious’s \u003ci\u003ePeyton Place\u003c\/i\u003eand Ray Bradbury’s \u003ci\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes.\u003c\/i\u003e” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Nearly always startling . . . Quietly savage . . . Clinically dispassionate and chilling . . . Smack[s] of shades of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King . . . In an age when ‘torture porn’ still makes regular returns to the multiplex every Halloween, it’s worth being reminded that novelists, especially gifted ones, can make the trespasses we inflict on others just as ghastly as any chain-saw massacre.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A very elegant nightmare, so appalling and so beautiful.” —\u003cb\u003eAudrey Niffenegger\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Time Traveler’s Wife \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHer Fearful Symmetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“By turns creepy, sensitive, unsettling, and beautifully written, but best of all, it provokes dark stirrings while always providing great pleasure. Stefan Kiesbye would be a writer to watch out for if he had not so clearly already arrived.” —\u003cb\u003eDaniel Woodrell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWinter’s Bone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Creepy in a way that actually made me quite nervous.” —\u003cb\u003eBen Loory\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eStories for Nighttime and Some for the Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“With a chilling twist here and there, a sly, stark wit, and a fascinating cast of lost boys and girls, \u003ci\u003eYour House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone\u003c\/i\u003e is part nostalgia trip and part horror show, as honest and heartfelt as \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/i\u003e in its portrait of adolescent yearning, anxieties, and heartbreak.” —\u003cb\u003eTimothy Schaffert\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Coffins of Little Hope\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A brilliant amalgam of Faulkner, the Brothers Grimm, and Günter Grass as if condensed for intensity.” —\u003cb\u003eJosip Novakovich\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFiction Writing Workshop \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWriting Fiction Step By Step\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Quick, hypnotic, and intensely creepy. The characters are all doomed. ‘Doomed to what?’ is the only question, and you won’t put the book down until you find out.” —\u003cb\u003eChristopher Buehlman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThose Across the River \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBetween Two Fires\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Full of dark folk magic and frightful, lurid wonder. It casts a spell, winking all the way through every grim detail and shadowy secret.” —\u003cb\u003ePaul Elwork\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefan Kiesbye\u003c\/b\u003e has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. Born on the German coast of the Baltic Sea, he moved to Berlin in the early 1980s. He studied drama and worked in radio before starting a degree in American studies, English, and comparative literature at Berlin's Freie Universität. A scholarship brought him to Buffalo, New York, in 1996. Kiesbye now lives in Portales, New Mexico, where he teaches creative writing at Eastern New Mexico University. He is also the arts editor of \u003ci\u003eAbsinthe: New European Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and his first book, \u003ci\u003eNext Door Lived a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award and was praised by Peter Ho Davies as \"utterly gripping,\" by Charles Baxter as \"both laconic and feverish,\" and by Robert Olmstead as \"maddeningly powerful.\"","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300486926565,"sku":"NP9780143121466","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143121466.jpg?v=1742920310","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/your-house-is-on-fire-your-children-all-gone-isbn-9780143121466","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}