25 Trumbulls Road

25 Trumbulls Road Synopsis

Winner of the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook CompetitionThis house has seen things it wont let you forget.When a new family moves in to the house at 25 Trumbulls Road, the narrators vivid dreams of a teary-eyed, raw-smelling woman who lives beneath the floor turn chillingly real. Five years later, the houses new set of inhabitants are visited by the spectral presence of the little girl they lost. In these five tales linked by a single haunted house, the characters move through a world suspended between nightmare and loss, where the unexplainable and disquieting are fueled by ordinary grief and longing. Christopher Locke explores the ways in which our unspoken fears and everyday regrets sustain the darker heart of a home-its doorways and windows, its basements and lights-until it fills those corners of our lives with something close to terror. His stories ask: how does a home feed on this energy, growing stronger with each new, sinister end? As compulsively readable as it is unsettling, 25 Trumbulls Road takes us to the places were afraid to go, then leaves us at a destination where we are our most human.