Get in Trouble

Nine stories start from everyday settings, a party, an amusement park, a hotel, a spacecraft, and drift into the uncanny. In 'The Summer People' a girl left to fend for herself by her moonshiner father in rural North Carolina looks after the invisible visitors of a summer house. In 'I Can See Right Through You' a fading actor, once famous as a vampire, joins his former co-star on a television show hunting ghosts in a Florida swamp. A teenager in 'The New Boyfriend' covets her best friend's robotic Ghost Boyfriend, superheroes share a hotel with a dentists' conference in 'Secret Identity', astronauts woken from suspended animation tell ghost stories in 'Two Houses', and 'Origin Story' unfolds in an abandoned Oz theme park.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States

First published

2015

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9780804179683 (Random House, United States)

9781782113843 (Canongate, United Kingdom)

9780812986495 (Random House Trade Paperbacks, United States)

9781782113850 (Canongate, United Kingdom)

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