Bedbugs
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781594745232
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99

Bedbugs

A Novel of Infestation

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It's another campy horror/sci-fi novel from the publisher of Night of the Living Trekkies--this one exploits our fears surrounding the current bedbug epidemic that is sweeping the United States.

FOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker’s fee.

Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.

Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks about the basement. But the rent is so low, it’s too good to pass up.

Big mistake. Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbugs . . . or is it? She awakens every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean. Susan fears she’s going mad—until a more sinister explanation presents itself: she may literally be confronting the bedbug problem from Hell.
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781594745232
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the authors

Ben H. Winters

Ben H. Winters is the author of nine novels, including most recently the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines. His novel Countdown City was an NPR Best Book of 2013 and the winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction, and The Last Policeman was the recipient of the 2012 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America; it was also named one of the Best Booksof 2012 by Amazon.com and Slate.

Ben also writes books for children and his journalism has appeared in The Chicago Reader, The Nation, In These Times, USA Today and Huffington Post. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and their three children.

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Praise for Bedbugs

Praise for Ben Winters' SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS:

"Quirk commissioned Ben H. Winters to punch up Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility with man-eating beasts from the briny deep. And once again, to the consternation of purists everywhere, the result is sheer delight." -- Onion A.V. Club

"It's a monsterpiece!" -- Real Simple

"The effect is strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria." -- Library Journal