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A wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by the co-editor of Queer Little Nightmares
The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? Super Castle Fun Park explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel who is tasked with the care of his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario’s anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time on her phone trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change, and the people they are interconnected to, including the dead, will be there when it happens.
Moving seamlessly between quiet melancholy, wry humour, and the supernatural, Super Castle Fun Park is a novel that defies expectations: a tragicomic, very human story about isolation, ghosts, technology, and our deep, abiding need for connection.
I love this book With writing that feels halfway to mysticism like a blurting flowing down from a mystic who also happens to be incredibly funny This book squints in the bright light of reality and moves with the tidal pull of how we are haunted and how we haunt ourselves what washes up and gets in our way restricts our movements or creates how we dance around what is disconcerting or inexplicable to us Its exciting dry and bright in its humour and unlike any literary voice Ive ever read Jenny Slate author of Lifeform and Little Weirds
Super Castle Fun Park is a refreshing and innovative novel that defies categorization Weaving multiple perspectives and toggling between the IRL and URL Zomparelli paints a picture of modern life that is bleak moving scary and darkly funny often all within the same sentence The connective tissue between all of it is the desire to connect and evade loneliness Its a deeply human and original work and like all great art it made me feel less alone Ryan OConnell author of Just by Looking at Him and Inspiration Porn
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312 Pages
9.00in * 6.00in *
425.00gr
April 14, 2026
9781834050263
eng
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