The Memory Ward

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Pub Date Mar 04 2025 | Archive Date Mar 18 2025

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Description

From critically acclaimed author Jon Bassoff, The Memory Ward is a haunting, Russian Doll of a novel about one man’s attempt to discover what’s real and what isn’t …


They say it’s always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you’d rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there’s no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect.


But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this idyllic little town. And he’s certain of that when he realizes the letters he’s been delivering are just blank pages.


Hank isn’t the only one who’s noticed the oddities in Bethlam. One such person knocks on his window in the middle of the night, urging him to investigate his bedroom wall. When Hank pulls back the wallpaper, he discovers dozens of sheets of paper, full of a story that is either complete madness or unbelievable truth. As he begins looking beyond the veneer of his smiling neighbors and their white picket fences, Hank is drawn further and further into a disturbing new reality …


Told in Bassoff’s lyrical and evocative style, The Memory Ward is a disquieting page-turner that examines the nature of identity, trauma, and what it means to be human.

From critically acclaimed author Jon Bassoff, The Memory Ward is a haunting, Russian Doll of a novel about one man’s attempt to discover what’s real and what isn’t …


They say it’s always beautiful in...


A Note From the Publisher

Jon Bassoff is the author of ten novels, several of which have been translated into French and German. His mountain-gothic novel, Corrosion, was nominated for the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, France’s biggest crime fiction award, and his debut novel, The Disassembled Man, was recently adapted for the big screen. For his day job, Bassoff teaches high school English in Longmont, CO. He is a connoisseur of tequila,g hot sauces, psychobilly music, and flea-bag motels

Jon Bassoff is the author of ten novels, several of which have been translated into French and German. His mountain-gothic novel, Corrosion, was nominated for the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere...


Advance Praise

“Jon Bassoff is a master of that territory where pulp becomes poetry, and crime fiction mates with horror.”

Ramsey Campbell, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ancient Images

“Half waking dream, half living nightmare, The Memory Ward is a palpitating descent into a verisimilitude of madness that could only be written by one of the very best in the game, Jon Bassoff.”

Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mystery series

“Jon Bassoff is a master of that territory where pulp becomes poetry, and crime fiction mates with horror.”

Ramsey Campbell, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ancient Images

“Half waking dream, half...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9798212912105
PRICE $26.99 (USD)
PAGES 258

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