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The Sofa

The Sofa


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Kafkaesque slow-burn domestic horror from a master of the uncanny. Mr. Montessori and his family return home from a trip to the beach to discover that their sofa is different. Once dark and contemporary, it's now antique, green and yellow, and smelling faintly of damp. Its appearance and origins are a mystery. A joke? An inverted theft? A break in the fabric of reality? Yes, the police take the "crime" seriously. But what happens next lies outside their expertise. Strange sounds in the night. A half-bathroom toilet with a mind of its own. Odd, fleeting glimpses of something (or someone) in mirrors. The inexplicable vision of Montessori's neighbor: He swears he saw a burglar. . . . Montessori's quest for answers will take him to a dank highway overpass in decayed upstate New York, a very strange dry-cleaning supply concern in outermost Queens, and into the depths of an eerie, warped forest where time and space no longer connect, all while putting his ever-more-troubled marriage and young family in grave danger. But that's what it costs to find out if we own our possessions -- or if they own us. Munson emerges as a master stylist in this tense, taut work of surreal humor and psychological horror.

About the Author :
Sam Munson is the author of Dog Symphony (New Directions), The War Against the Assholes (Saga), and The November Criminals (Doubleday). His fiction has appeared in The Baffler, Granta, Guernica, McSweeney's, n+1, Tablet, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder of The New York Review of Dreams (www.rateyourdream.com).

Review :
Indie Next Pick, December 2025. --American Booksellers Association A Most-Anticipated Horror Book of 2025. --LitHub Best Horror Books of 2025. --Men's Journal A Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025. --OurCulture "[An] eerily effective update on the suburban Gothic genre. Mr. Munson seeds the otherwise ordinary setting with ominously recurring symbols and side characters--a mysterious bowler hat, a man with a mole near his mouth... the story sustains its atmosphere of disquiet by refusing to give away its secrets until the final sentences." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Recalls well-told psychological horror... perfect for fans of Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami." --Booklist "While any good work of horror (especially psychological horror) should affect its reader soul-deep, The Sofa weaves the reader into its very fabric. It is consuming, so the reader is consumed at the same rate as Montessori. It's a blessing that The Sofa can be devoured in a sitting or two. Otherwise many more readers might lose their minds." --Nick Rees Gardner, Independent Book Review "A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath." --Michael Clune, author of Pan "Munson's surreal, grimly humorous, and intense psychological novella finds horror in the most basic of objects--the living-room couch." --Library Journal "The Sofa captures the vertiginous moment when the world shifts and seems to turn against you, when your bad luck stops feeling random and instead starts to seem like the working of a malevolent consciousness peeking at you through the veil. It is unsettling, funny, and sickening by turns--and it made me really appreciate my old familiar couch, which I truly hope no-one steals out of my apartment anytime soon." --Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person and Other Stories "Munson sticks the landing with a creepy finale that mixes macabre humor and an unsettling reckoning with mortality. There's plenty to admire in this offbeat ghost story." --Publishers Weekly "When his family's sofa goes missing, Mr. Montessori sets out to solve the mystery. His efforts make a kind of absurdist hero journey, a history of accidents, coincidences, and personal injuries. The Sofa is a fantastic, funny, and smart work, a story driven forward by Sam Munson's gift for building narrative reality in an increasingly unreal world. The Sofa is a wonderful book." --Donald Antrim, author of The Emerald Light in the Air "Munson's prose is understated, competent, comic, and beautiful. In other words, The Sofa is everything you want from literary horror. Perfect dementia-core." --Gabriel Smith, author of Brat "A weird hug of a novel. A nightmare, warm and cozy." --Adam Levin, author of Mount Chicago "This was the most fun I've ever had reading a work of horror. With no chapter to break the tension, Sam Munson's The Sofa reads like a short story--I couldn't stop turning the pages! The central conflict of man vs. sofa is always in view, and the absurdist humor paired with psychological horror keeps things interesting. with a literary feel. I was on the edge of my (sofa) seat the whole time!" --Mary Wahlmeier Bracciano, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) "The Sofa resides at the intersection of The Diary of a Nobody, The Shining, and Eraserhead. It is subtle and gripping and generally quite fabulous." --Simon Doonan, author of The Camp 100 - Glorious Flamboyance from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X "The Sofa is a wildly entertaining conceptual novel that threatens to upend Mr. Montessori's family life despite our tense protestations to leave it alone." --Mauro Javier Cárdenas, author of Aphasia and American Abductions Praise for Sam Munson "Munson is a champion stylist." --Jason Sheehan, NPR (from their review of Dog Symphony) "The strangest transmogrification of a writer in recent memory." --Kirkus Reviews (from their review of Dog Symphony)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781953387974
  • Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
  • Publisher Imprint: Two Dollar Radio
  • Height: 191 mm
  • No of Pages: 162
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 28 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1953387977
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 209 gr


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