House of Houses

By Kevin L. Donihe

2008

First Published

3.96

Average Rating

206

Number of Pages

6H17M

Audio Length

"This is perhaps the weirdest book that anyone has ever written, or will ever write. Donihe is the best kept secret of the bizarro fiction genre." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Adolf in Wonderland There once was an odd reclusive little man who was in love with his house. He loved this house not in the way that normal people love their homes. His was a more intimate love, like the love between two humans. He loved his house so much that he asked it to marry him, and he believed that his house happily replied with a yes. Unfortunately, their love was to be torn apart the day before their wedding, on the day of the great house holocaust. On this day, every house in the world collapsed for no explainable reason. It was as if they killed themselves, and took many of their occupants with them. Distraught and despairing over the death of his fiancée, this man must go on a quest to find out what happened to his beloved home. On his He will meet Tony, a self-declared superhero, who looks kind of like a black Man-At-Arms from the old He-Man cartoons and claims to protect the world from quasi-dimensional psychopomps with his powerful sexpounding abilities. He will meet Manhaus, who seems to be part man and part house. And, finally, he will venture to House Heaven, a world where houses live inside of bigger houses made of people.

Avg Rating

3.96

Number of Ratings

233

5 STARS

36%

4 STARS

35%

3 STARS

19%

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Author

Kevin L. Donihe

Author · 12 books

I am a writer man. Currently, HOUSE OF HOUSES, SHALL WE GATHER AT THE GARDEN?, OCEAN OF LARD (co-written with Carlton Mellick III), GRAPE CITY, and THE GREATEST FUCKING MOMENT IN SPORTS are my books from Eraserhead Press. I've had a lot of short fiction published since 1995. Biggest short fiction credit = a story in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF LEGAL THRILLERS, published by Carroll and Graf in the US and Constable and Robinson in the UK. I also edit BARE BONE, an anthology series for Raw Dog Screaming Press. A story from the first issue was reprinted in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR 13. Also, quite a few stories (including five in #9, and four apiece in the three previous issues) have received honorable mentions in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR. I do not eat chimpanzees.