The Sofa

ABOUT "[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 "Really, really creeped me out... through his use of language, repetition, and pacing, Munson weaves a spell."—John Warner, Chicago Tribune 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