Joshua Chaplinsky

Joshua Chaplinsky is the author of The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me At Night, Letters to the Purple Satin Killer, The Paradox Twins, Whispers in the Ear of A Dreaming Ape, and Kanye West—Reanimator. His short fiction has been published by Vice, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Thuglit, Severed Press, Expat Press, and Broken River Books.  He was the Managing Editor of LitReactor.com (2011-2023). Follow him on various social media at @jaceycockrobin. More info at joshuachaplinsky.com. He lives in Queens, NY with his wife and cats.
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A Brief History of the Haunted House Novel by Joshua Chaplinsky

A Brief History of the Haunted House Novel by Joshua Chaplinsky

Joshua Chaplinsky charts the two hundred and fifty year history of the haunted house novel, from Pliny the Younger’s cursed Athens letter through Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King’s The Shining and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves. It lands as his own contribution to the subgenre, The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night, arrives from CLASH Books.

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