The weird is the personal. Maybe you’re obsessed with UFOs or ghosts or serial killers or houses that walk across the country, but any magic you find in them is wonderfully idiosyncratic to you. They’re the answers to the questions it’s easier to ask of the cosmos than yourself.
Can a house crawl a thousand miles to assuage its own guilt? What happens when a girl finds a way to measure the speed of her greyhound’s dreams? What went wrong on the first camping trip of Charles Fort’s Wonder Scouts? Who is haunting an abandoned Florida mental institution — the living or the dead?
The stories in In Search Of and Others use the tools of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to find the complicated and personal answers.
“Hauntingly beautiful…exquisite craftsmanship makes this a timeless classic for those seeking asylum from formulaic prose.”
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Ludwigsen’s well-wrought, entertaining tales feel like a mashup of Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, and his evocative, whip-smart prose steeps readers in a realism that’s mordantly funny and matter-of-fact but glimmering with whimsy and horror that leaks around the edges…Ludwigsen’s creepy, comic world reveals plenty about our own.”
- Kirkus
Reviews
- Publishers Weekly, starred review
- Kirkus, starred review
- Seattle Times
- Elitist Book Reviews
- Shock Totem
- Impressions of a Reader
