What came first, the home or the desire to invade? 

A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions under their belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a new generation of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals of criminal history. From initial canvasing to home entry, the reader is complicit in every strangling and shattered window. The fear is inescapable.

Examining the sanctuary of the home and one of the horror genre's most frightening tropes, Anybody Home? points the camera lens onto the quiet suburbs and its unsuspecting abodes, any of which are potential stages for an invader ambitious enough to make it the scene of the next big crime sensation. Who knows? Their performance just might make it to the silver screen. 

“It’s rare to be able to say so, but, in this case, it’s hard to say otherwise: Seidlinger’s My Pet Serial Killer is unlike anything I’ve read before. Strange and alarming, unique and capacious, this novel will surprise you.”
R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries

"Seidlinger’s imagination is a sea unto itself, the reader riding these rollicking waves. The Fun We’ve Had will have you clutching pages as though they’re life vests. Fans of Calvino and Shelley Jackson will dig the slow submerge into this crazy romp."
Joshua Mohr, author of Model Citizen

"Michael Seidlinger is a homegrown Calvino, a humanist, and wise and darkly whimsical. His invisible cities are the spires of the sea where we all sail our coffins in search of our stories."
Steve Erickson, author of Shadowbahn

"Michael J. Seidlinger's The Laughter of Strangers is vicious and unforgettable. Willem Floures' search for meaning in a world that keeps knocking him off his feet is as gritty and enthralling as a fight. The Laughter of Strangers destroyed my expectations of what a boxing novel can be. Seidlinger is charting new narrative territory, and we should follow him wherever he goes."
Laura van den Berg, author of I Hold a Wolf by the Ears