Welcome To The Deep Estate
A Surreal Backrooms Comedy
by Kevin Kane
Narrated by Christopher Harbour
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Pub Date Dec 16 2025 | Archive Date Jan 18 2026
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Description
Here’s a little secret: Reality is insane.
A death cult led by a box of Kraft mac and cheese. The Bermuda Triangle. Lizard people walking among us. When every conspiracy theory, urban legend, and fever-dream headline is true, someone has to keep it all cataloged, contained, and out of sight. That someone is the Bureau of the Bizarre.
John Doe always thought his paranoid father was crazy, then the crazy showed up on his doorstep with a job offer. Now, he’s a Collector for the Bureau, partnered with Edith Sinner, a metanatural vampire with a past that refuses to stay buried. Their office is The Deep Estate, a liminal space carved out of The Backrooms, where nightmares take shape and reality bends to the collective unconscious. Their coworkers are anything but normal. Carrie is a stab-happy flying pencil. Marybeth is a Victorian doll with serious Devil Daddy issues. And then there is the Murder Clown...
But when John and Edie bump into a conspiracy the Bureau was never meant to see, reality itself is rewritten to frame them for murder. Hunted by their own and pursued through impossible corridors, they have to expose the truth before the Deep Estate’s secrets swallow them whole.
Equal parts cosmic horror and comic absurdity, Welcome to the Deep Estate is what happens when Men in Black stumbles into the Backrooms carrying a copy of Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Welcome to your new nine-to-five. Welcome to the Deep Estate.
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Advance Praise
4.22/5 on GoodReads.
"This novel is gloriously weird, deliciously demented, generously gory, and absolutely hilarious. 5/5 Stars" - Horror Reads, Goodreads
'The literary equivalent of Viagra for conspiracy theorists. 5/5 Stars." - Chanel Chapters, Goodreads
"A whirlwind of twisted fun! Couldn't stop laughing. Both a page turner and a modern-day dark comedy. Highly recommend! 5/5 Stars." - Madeline Cook, Goodreads
Marketing Plan
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