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  • Published: 9 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9780593851449
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $70.00
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If You Think You're Lonely Now




The long-awaited, terrifying new novel from Gus Moreno, author of the cult classic This Thing Between Us

"This book legit gave me nightmares." —Paul Tremblay
"The great Millennial horror novel." —Rachel Harrison

When Gabe and Espo buy the long-abandoned, three-flat apartment building in Chicago, it feels like their first real step toward freedom from the 9-to-5 grind. But their plan to renovate and rent out the other two units is immediately beset with challenges from all sides, and not just from inside the building. Gabe and Espo can handle the strange dreams, the oddities found within the walls, the music drifting down from empty attic. It's their families they really have to watch out for.

Gabe’s mother asks him to take in his troubled brother Ruben who is spiraling after his divorce. Espo’s estranged father, a recovering addict needs a place to stay. Now, with each floor of the building occupied, a dark presence begins to make itself known. And Gabe and Espo need to face not only what they’ve inherited—debt, grief, addiction, love—but the terrible possibility that some buildings don’t just hold the past. They feed on it. 

Gus Moreno’s long-awaited new novel, If You Think You're Lonely Now, is a brilliant, bone-chilling exploration of love, intergenerational trauma, and the sometimes oppressive weight of filial duty.

  • Published: 9 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9780593851449
  • Imprint: Putnam
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $70.00
Categories:

About the author

Gus Moreno

Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us, a "Best Book of 2021" pick by NPR and the New York Public Library. He's also the co-creator of When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee, a comic book series published by Boom! Studios. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and dog, but never think that he's not from Chicago.

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Praise for If You Think You're Lonely Now

Praise for If You Think You're Lonely Now
"If You Think You're Lonely Now's Gabriel and Espo find themselves trapped within family dysfunction, the toxic American dream of Easy Street, and a haunted house unlike any other I've read. Moreno writes with maturity and integrity. His is a singular vision, genuinely affecting and haunting. This book legit gave me nightmares." —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep

"The great Millennial horror novel. A staggeringly brilliant examination of the American dream turned nightmare, the claustrophobic confines of obligation and expectation, and how the past shapes our future. Somehow charming, insightful, and completely terrifying all at once—If You Think You're Lonely Now is a must-read from one of the genre's finest." —Rachel Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Kiss Slay Replay

"Gus Moreno is a master at unmooring his readers. With his new novel If You Think You're Lonely Now, he has created a completely new architecture for horror, dismantling all the haunted houses that have come before in order to renovate the entire subgenre into something vibrant and bleeding. This novel doesn't just disturb you, it distorts the very reality around you. You're never getting that sense of safety back after reading it." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Mr. Lonelyhearts

“Gus Moreno’s If You Think You’re Lonely Now is a dread-soaked nightmare that somehow feels like being stared at by someone in the dark at two in the morning.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Wretch

"We're always safe at home, aren't we? Building our dreams, surrounded by our extended families? Gus Moreno's aching, smoldering If You Think You're Lonely Now knows the answer, and that answer is No, no, no.Kathe Koja, Bram Stoker award-winning author of The Cipher

Praise for This Thing Between Us
"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed." —The New York Times Book Review

"While the scary parts are fun to read, the emotional grittiness of this novel is what makes a lasting impact . . . A superb debut." —NPR