Rose/House

An exquisitely creepy exploration of the boundaries of life, death, the real and the artificial – Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award-winning author of the Children of Time seriesMartine’s soaring, crystalline prose evokes Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if designed by Frank Gehry. She builds a twisted cathedral of story and fills every inch with equal parts beauty and a creeping, inescapable sense of wrongness. Readers will be floored – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review[The Haunting of Hill House is] a hard act to riff on without simply producing a lesser version, and yet Rose/House manages it dramatically and delightfully – ReactorTight and unsettling … a story that’s stylish, discomforting and strangely believable … Rose/House is a freaky love letter to architecture, weird and otherwise – Jake Casella Brookins * Locus *While a mystery story raises questions in order to answer them and reset order in a disordered world, Rose/House deconstructs that process and reassembles the pieces into something other – or perhaps Other. The spirit that haunts this story is not that of the locked-room puzzle but something stranger and not at all reassuring – Russell Letson * Locus *A locked-room murder mystery that’s atmospheric, beautifully plotted and … conveys a vivid sense of what motivates its protagonists. * SFX Magazine *Rose/House highlights all that is good in a novella … the language is precise and tight, with every sentence counting. * SFFWorld.com *

Arkady Martine (she/her) is the Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation of Peace. She is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire and a city planner. She is currently a policy advisor for the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, where she works on climate change mitigation, energy grid modernization and resiliency planning. Under both names, she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda and the edges of the world. Arkady grew up in New York City and, after some time in Turkey, Canada, Sweden and Baltimore, lives in Santa Fe with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw.