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Tom Evans and his family enjoy a quiet life in their suburban neighborhood—until a new family moves in down the block.
Who are they?
What’s wrong with them?
It’s probably best not to say.
From the author of The Usher comes a chilling new short story that will have you peeking through your blinds and questioning everything you thought you knew about the people around you.
Reviews
“A midnight walk through the uncanny shadows of American suburbia. Tinted with Lynchian strangeness and hiding an elusive dread at its ending - this is a short, sharp shock of deranged Americana.” - Neil McRobert (Talking Scared)
"The ol' chestnut ‘there goes the neighborhood’ never had this much menace imbued into it before, but then again, in Adam Wakefield's adept hands, we should be saying there goes the novelette. Unnerving in its nimbleness, The Elephant in the Room is a perfect distillation of apple pie unease, a slice of Americana gone rotten. This neighborhood never stood a chance.” - Clay McLeod Chapman (Wake Up & Open Your Eyes)
“Mysterious and menacing. Like a lost Twilight Zone episode in which an ordinary family, in an ordinary place, are sucked into the vortex of something alien and dark… and ultimately find something terribly familiar.” - Dennis Mahoney (Our Winter Monster)
“The Elephant in the Room is a nasty collision between suburban families that challenges the concept of ‘normalcy’ as a thing. Highly original. Highly entertaining.” - Chris Panatier (Shitshow)
Tom Evans and his family enjoy a quiet life in their suburban neighborhood—until a new family moves in down the block.
Who are they?
What’s wrong with them?
It’s probably best not to say.
From the author of The Usher comes a chilling new short story that will have you peeking through your blinds and questioning everything you thought you knew about the people around you.
Reviews
“A midnight walk through the uncanny shadows of American suburbia. Tinted with Lynchian strangeness and hiding an elusive dread at its ending - this is a short, sharp shock of deranged Americana.” - Neil McRobert (Talking Scared)
"The ol' chestnut ‘there goes the neighborhood’ never had this much menace imbued into it before, but then again, in Adam Wakefield's adept hands, we should be saying there goes the novelette. Unnerving in its nimbleness, The Elephant in the Room is a perfect distillation of apple pie unease, a slice of Americana gone rotten. This neighborhood never stood a chance.” - Clay McLeod Chapman (Wake Up & Open Your Eyes)
“Mysterious and menacing. Like a lost Twilight Zone episode in which an ordinary family, in an ordinary place, are sucked into the vortex of something alien and dark… and ultimately find something terribly familiar.” - Dennis Mahoney (Our Winter Monster)
“The Elephant in the Room is a nasty collision between suburban families that challenges the concept of ‘normalcy’ as a thing. Highly original. Highly entertaining.” - Chris Panatier (Shitshow)