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Pub Date Sep 22 2026 | Archive Date Sep 14 2026


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Description

House of Leaves meets David Lynch in a surreal horror novel exploring generational trauma and the monsters it breeds, from Joshua Chaplinsky, cult author of Letters to the Purple Satin Killer.

The lives of three unlikely women unfold to reveal a shared history of neglect and abuse. At the center looms the Vogel House, a facade of rotten wood and sagging eaves that plays host to a parasitic dream—the malevolent entity known as The Man in the Watch.

After spending the night in an abandoned house, Jenna Thomas returns home haunted by someone else’s past. She revisits the scene in the hopes of exorcising her dreams, only to uncover something far worse. Mrs. Vogel receives an unexpected letter from her estranged daughter. It fills the old woman with hope for the future, even though her daughter is long since dead. Meanwhile, a young woman contends with the legacy of her father while simultaneously fighting for the future of her unborn child.

The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night thrusts readers into a nightmarish dead zone of overlapping realities, presided over by a malignant force that manipulates memory and delights in human suffering.

House of Leaves meets David Lynch in a surreal horror novel exploring generational trauma and the monsters it breeds, from Joshua Chaplinsky, cult author of Letters to the Purple Satin Killer.

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Advance Praise

"Reads like the novelization of a really fucked up cult movie. I was not okay after reading." —Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered

"Chaplinsky has crafted a diabolical nightmare of a book, one so deeply woven in agony that not even a scrap of daylight can be glimpsed through the masterfully woven story on the page. The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night is a deeply immersive and unsettling read which will have you gasping for breath as you travel the dark portal Chaplinsky has created." —Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Devil's Pocketbook

"Reads like the novelization of a really fucked up cult movie. I was not okay after reading." —Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered

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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781968043261
PRICE $21.95 (USD)
PAGES 310

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