“This complex and daring work embodies a country constantly reimagining itself. By turns lyrical, curiously suspenseful, and fresh, this novel is one I will return to time and again for its beautiful prose.” — Zain Khalid, author of ‘Brother Alive’

“Harris Lahti’s vision is one of grim humor and gristly poetry, but it always leaves room for the wonderful terror of promise held in chance encounters. A remarkable debut.” — Tracy O’Neill, author of ‘Women of Interest’

“Foreclosure Gothic makes me excited about the future of literary fiction. It is rare for a debut to be simultaneously formally innovative and so clasically minded. Lahti writes like de Kooning paints. This is a real, proper novel. I consider Harris Lahti to be the competition.” — Gabriel Smith, author of ‘Brat’

“Harris Lahti is one of the most exciting stylists working today. File his work next to Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah.” — Bud Smith, author of ‘Teenager’

“Harris Lahti is one of the best younger writers I see coming.” — Lynne Tillman, author of ‘Mothercare’

“Astra House rarely misses and this looks right up my alley. If you could judge a book by its cover, this one is ready to be an all-timer.” — Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful

“Lyrical and eerie… the prose is subtly alluring, such as the author’s description of nature as ‘a witch’s brew of mistrust’. This sly and creepy drama is worth a look.” — Publishers Weekly

“Harris Lahti’s debut, Foreclosure Gothic, is a goth song in a novel form. It is full of murk, omens, melodrama, the lushness of carnality, and the fearsomeness of love’s darker impulses… Lahti is a master of the portent.” — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Brooklyn Rail

“A wild ride that is on its way to becoming an all-timer. Lahti will grab you on page one and not let you go as you feel the unearthlyness take over your body. This is firing on all cylinders and the beautiful thing is it feels like Lahti did it effortlessly. Simply stunning.” — Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful

“Lahti stretches as far as a contemporary gothic can go, in the age of information and disbelief, without verging into a pure pulp . . . In Foreclosure Gothic, the threat of violence is more vivid for being unacknowledged . . . Foreclosure Gothic understands the real horror is within the grind to nowhere.” — Carina Imbornone, The Baffler

“Foreclosure Gothic is a twisted melodrama animated by close encounters with addiction, incest, and death by misadventure. But it’s also an earnest heartland romance . . . An escape from escapism.” —Kennth Dillon, The Believer

“Foreclosure Gothic, Harris Lahti’s debut novel, is a chilling, absorbing, searingly memorable work of gothic fiction . . . While such spooky surrealism may occasionally skew the picture, don’t be fooled—Foreclosure Gothic is a deeply human, and deeply personal, story about intergenerational cycles and the financial reality of creative ambition. Read it once for the sinewy poetry and evocative imagery. Read it twice to unveil the sly plotting and subtly intricate architecture. Like a foreclosed property, there is a ‘house behind the house.’ Lahti’s debut rewards repeat readings.” —Michael Knapp, Electric Literature

“Foreclosure Gothic is as much a peephole into family dynamics as it is a crawl space haunted by shadows of American lore. . . In a cultural landscape saturated with remakes and algorithmic storylines engineered to mimic past successes and deliver tidy, marketable resolutions, what distinguishes Foreclosure Gothic is Lahti’s intuitive aesthetic and conceptual control: his stylized, hyperconcrete prose conjures scenes that are both vivid and withholding . . . It was heartening to be reminded that this kind of attention—not just to topic but to the architecture of story itself—is not extinct; that there are still emerging authors who are committed to the slow, enduring labor of processing the possibility the art form allows.” —Leah Dworkin, Los Angeles Review of Books

Foreclosure Gothic is an immersive read with a thrumming pace and mesmerizing prose . . . [Lahti’s] sentences are harmonic and masterful; his clauses build beautifully toward his desired (often ominous) moods and meanings.” —Nicole Treska, Zona Motel

The modern-day Hudson Valley gets an American Gothic makeover in Warwick author Harris Lahti’s debut novel . . . A provocative insight into the American Dream.” –Abilene Adelman, Chronogram

“[Lahti] proves to be a writer capable of drawing the reader’s eye with a miniaturist’s stateliness and intensity in the space of one paragraph, then managing to hustle her through decades of recorded time in the next. This considered balance of storytelling technique lends Foreclosure Gothic a tilting funhouse energy whose pull becomes inexorable . . . The novel is Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood by way of Ian McEwan’s dread-soaked early work, or Jac Jemc’s haunted house parable, The Grip of It. Although really any accurate comparison seems lacking to the extent that Foreclosure Gothic is truly, thrillingly its very own thing; I’ve never read a novel like it.” –Adrian Van Young, Southwest Review

“Tight, lyrical prose . . . There isn’t much closure in Foreclosure Gothic, only a reminder that, while none of us ever go home again, we never really leave it either.” —Robert Warf, The Drift

A multi-generational and deeply autobiographical gothic tale of Hollywood dreams and upstate New York reality that feels like Andre Dubus III meets Chantal V. Johnson.

Foreclosure Gothic reimagines the American Gothic against the backdrop of today’s Hudson Valley. The story tells of ex-Hollywood actor Vic Greener as he falls in love with the elusive Heather Roswell and the couple, following in the footsteps of Vic’s father, resolves to make a life restoring one foreclosed home after another. Then comes the uncanny, destabilizing arrival of new tenants in their duplex, and the Greener’s shocking discovery upon their departure.

With evocative and unsettling black and white photos throughout, this debut novel is at once a skewed portrait of three generations of Greener men, an intimate look at both childhood and parenthood and an examination of the friction between chasing one’s dream and working to make money.