Good thing it’s not a killer house and really just wants to be loved and lived in. “The house straightens its aching floorboards, like a human sucking in thei This is the cutest, most adorable and heartwarming Hugo and Nebula nominated story - and now Nebula Award winner for Best Short Story! - about a very lonely haunted house that really would like a family to move in.ġ33 Poisonwood Avenue needs to make a good impression and “it pulls its floorboards so straight that its foundations tremble”. 133 Poisonwood Avenue needs to make a good impression and “it pulls its floorboards so straight that its foundations tremble”. This is the cutest, most adorable and heartwarming Hugo and Nebula nominated story - and now Nebula Award winner for Best Short Story! - about a very lonely haunted house that really would like a family to move in. So this story is dedicated to Natalia Theodoridou, who demanded I help 133 Poisonwood find its family and its audience – all of you.more One of my fellow authors reached across the table, grabbed me by the hand, and said, “Please write this.” On the train ride home, I did. Off the top of my head I gave them the example that if I wrote a haunted house story, it wouldn’t be like Haunting of Hill House – it would be about a haunted house that was lonely and desperately wanted someone to live in it. Instead I tend to put Horror-y things back out as humorous stories or heartwarming stories. I read, watch, and play Horror every week, but I barely ever write it.
Off the top of my head I gave them the example that if I wrote a haunted house stor Author’s Note: At the World Fantasy Convention in 2018, I went to dinner with some lovely people who let me babble about Horror. Author’s Note: At the World Fantasy Convention in 2018, I went to dinner with some lovely people who let me babble about Horror.