When we talk to the dead, p.27
When We Talk to the Dead, page 27
To Adam Silverman and Louise Bonnet. Not so much for their deep friendship and creative support (for those things, of course, of course, and there are many others, too many to list here, for whom that is also true). Specifically for the years our families have been together on our annual summertime weeks at that three-hundred-year-old New England house of yours. Though quite different from the one in the book, it is palpable, the soul of an old house, and the awareness and wonder of the lives that have passed through it, just all of it, are in these pages.
To Edgar Allan Poe, who altered my mind when I read “The Tell-Tale Heart” at the age of ten, specifically to the dusty collection I found on our shelves, published by Tudor in 1933 with the demented illustrations by Harry Clarke, which did their own work on my brain. So, for this, to my parents for their books, and for all the ways that they were.
To the northeastern seaboard for being awesome and beautiful and filled with the seasons and shifting states of your waters and sky, for being everything a mind and body could ever want.
And, lastly, as alluded to above, to all the people I have not named but who should be.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Author Biography
Ian Chorão is a writer and psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York. He lives with his wife, who is a filmmaker and professor; they have two children. Like his main character, he appreciates that the space between feeling and creation, realty and imagination is often ambiguous at best. This is his first book of horror.
Books should be disposed of and recycled according to local requirements. All paper materials used are FSC compliant.
This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2025 by Ian Chorão
Excerpt(s) from The Stranger by Albert Camus, translated by Stuart Gilbert, copyright © 1946, copyright renewed 1974 by Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Crooked Lane Books and its logo are trademarks of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication data available upon request.
ISBN (hardcover): 979-8-89242-351-9
ISBN (paperback): 979-8-89242-352-6
ISBN (ebook): 979-8-89242-353-3
Cover design by Meghan Deist
Printed in the United States.
www.crookedlanebooks.com
Crooked Lane Books
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First Edition: October 2025
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To Edgar Allan Poe, who altered my mind when I read “The Tell-Tale Heart” at the age of ten, specifically to the dusty collection I found on our shelves, published by Tudor in 1933 with the demented illustrations by Harry Clarke, which did their own work on my brain. So, for this, to my parents for their books, and for all the ways that they were.
To the northeastern seaboard for being awesome and beautiful and filled with the seasons and shifting states of your waters and sky, for being everything a mind and body could ever want.
And, lastly, as alluded to above, to all the people I have not named but who should be.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Author Biography
Ian Chorão is a writer and psychotherapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York. He lives with his wife, who is a filmmaker and professor; they have two children. Like his main character, he appreciates that the space between feeling and creation, realty and imagination is often ambiguous at best. This is his first book of horror.
Books should be disposed of and recycled according to local requirements. All paper materials used are FSC compliant.
This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2025 by Ian Chorão
Excerpt(s) from The Stranger by Albert Camus, translated by Stuart Gilbert, copyright © 1946, copyright renewed 1974 by Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Crooked Lane Books and its logo are trademarks of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication data available upon request.
ISBN (hardcover): 979-8-89242-351-9
ISBN (paperback): 979-8-89242-352-6
ISBN (ebook): 979-8-89242-353-3
Cover design by Meghan Deist
Printed in the United States.
www.crookedlanebooks.com
Crooked Lane Books
34 West 27th St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10001
First Edition: October 2025
The authorized representative in the EU for product safety and compliance is eucomply OÜPärnu mnt 139b-14, 11317 Tallinn, Estonia, hello@eucompliancepartner.com, +33757690241
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