Join Strange Attractor Press in celebrating the launch of Victoria Nelson’s book Neighbor George.
[ID: Image shows a bird-shaped stone sculpture with white background. Above is written NEIGHBOR GEORGE and VICTORIA NELSON in capital letters, and on top ‘Nelson piles on twist after unexpected twist, horror after unexpected horror, in this deadly dance of predator and prey. Mary Mackey ‘ in small italic letters.]
Doors: 7:00pm
Tickets £5 on the door
With readings, conversation and limited editions books on sale
Strange Attractor Press presents a launch event for Victoria Nelson’s new novel, Neighbor George.
Neighbor George is a disarmingly engaging, and ultimately terrifying, tale of cosmic horror set in the Bohemian enclaves of 1970s California. Deeply informed by her own studies of the supernatural, charted in her widely-admired non-fiction books, The Secret Life of Puppets and Gothicka, Neighbor George is an enigmatic story of psychological horror enacted in the space where the natural and supernatural collide.
Victoria Nelson will be in conversation with Roger Luckhurst, Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck and editor of the forthcoming 'Gothic: An Illustrated History' for Thames and Hudson.
“Compelling and wittily written... elegant prose... gathers monstrous menace and then raises us towards mystery and awe.” Ramsey Campbell
"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 Neighbor George." Mary Mackey
"Neighbor George will join canonical California novels” Rob Sean Wilson.
Victoria Nelson is the author of two acclaimed cultural histories of the supernatural, The Secret Life of Puppets and Gothicka, two collections of short stories, and a memoir. She edited the Robert Aickman collection Compulsory Games for New York Review Books.