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About Ordinary Horror

Frank Delabano is a retired science teacher living an unremarkable life in an unremarkable suburb. But in a sunny corner of his backyard lies his secret treasure: a magnificent rose garden. When his beloved blooms are threatened by a mysterious burrowing pest, he sends away for an organic remedy: an exotic tropical plant guaranteed to be antithetical to garden varmints but harmless to pets and everything else. The strange gopherbane plants take care of the problem . . . and much more. Building to an unforgettable climax, Ordinary Horror tells an unsettling, richly atmospheric tale of creepily evolving menace. An elegantly literary debut . . . Like a Stephen King novel written by Joseph Conrad. (Laura Miller, Salon.com) Searcy's prose is a razor-like tool for dissecting the surreal mundanity of suburbia. (Los Angeles Times) In controlled and lyrical prose, Searcy imbues the ordinary with the horrific . . . His skill is to keep us guessing. (The New Yorker)

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