Neighbor George

A lonely young woman and a mysterious man meet in a northern California landscape populated by poets, New Agers, stoners, and dropouts.

Do you know the language of the birds?

Summer, 1979: A lonely young woman housesitting for her aunt and uncle in an isolated bohemian enclave finds troubling reminders of a past family tragedy surfacing in odd and unsettling ways. When a mysterious man moves in next door, Dovey hopes for a romance like the ones in the novels she secretly devours. But a dark truth hidden since childhood erupts shockingly in a violent otherworldly intrusion, catapulting her into a desperate struggle for her life and sanity.

Set in a haunted northern California landscape populated by poets, New Agers, stoners, and burnouts, Neighbor George is a deeply atmospheric story of psychological horror enacted in the liminal space where the natural collides with the supernatural.

Author: Victoria Nelson
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Published: 12/14/2021
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781913689308
ISBN10: 1913689301
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Gothic
- Fiction | Occult & Supernatural
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Victoria Nelson is the author of The Secret Life of Puppets, Gothicka, two collections of short stories, and a memoir. She edited the Robert Aickman collection Compulsory Games for the New York Review of Books. Neighbor George is her first novel.