The House Inside
A chapbook. Cover art by Alan M. Clark.
A changed and merciless sun beats down upon a suburban backyard. A boy falls dead beneath its unforgiving rays... and his toys come to life.
A plastic cowboy and a rag-tag band of survivors set off in a miniature covered wagon, searching for answers as they cross the blistering wasteland that leads to the dead boy's house and the shadowy safety of the toybox they call home.
But the boy's house isn't empty, and it isn't a refuge. Other survivors wait inside – a squad of plastic soldiers, a porcelain ballerina, and a spider that hunts its prey in a dead little girl's dollhouse – all of them fighting a desperate battle of survival in a world where nothing that casts a shadow is safe.
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Norman Partridge
Norman Partridge (born 1958) is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name.
Norman Partridge's 2006 novel Dark Harvest, published in a limited edition of 2000 autographed copies and 24 lettered edition copies by Cemetery Dance Publications, was voted one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. It also won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction, and has been nominated for two more awards in 2007. Mr. Partridge is currently in talks with a production company about a film option.
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