Some laughter remembers what you tried to forget.
Eddie is haunted.
More than forty years have passed since he saw the face in the window, heard the music in the fan, and lost his younger brother to the events of That Night. More than forty years since Splitsville. More than forty years since the Ha Ha King.
But things never really go away. Now the voices and music have returned—just when Eddie’s life finally seems to be going well, when he has met Inchie, a woman who seems almost too perfect. Why does his brother, serving life in prison, continue sending him letters? Why has the jail where Eddie pretends to teach suddenly become his refuge? And why has he become convinced that his bosses are made of straw?
As Eddie burrows into fractured childhood memories, his brother’s letters abruptly stop, the voices grow louder, and his newfound relationship begins to unravel. What happened all those years ago is happening again—only this time, Eddie is the target. If he cannot discover what the Ha Ha King is and why it has returned, he may end up like his brother: taken, shaken, or dead.
Darkly comic and deeply unsettling, The Ha Ha King is a literary psychological horror novel about brothers, guilt, memory, and the monsters created by a family’s silences.
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