"Recalls well-told psychological horror. perfect for fans of Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami." --Booklist "A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath." --Michael Clune, author of Pan " The Sofa captures the vertiginous moment when the world shifts and seems to turn against you, when your bad luck stops feeling random and instead starts to seem like the working of a malevolent consciousness peeking at you through the veil. It is unsettling, funny, and sickening by turns--and it made me really appreciate my old familiar couch, which I truly hope no-one steals out of my apartment anytime soon." --Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person and Other Stories "Munson sticks the landing with a creepy finale that mixes macabre humor and an unsettling reckoning with mortality.

There's plenty to admire in this offbeat ghost story." -- Publishers Weekly "When his family's sofa goes missing, Mr. Montessori sets out to solve the mystery. His efforts make a kind of absurdist hero journey, a history of accidents, coincidences, and personal injuries. The Sofa is a fantastic, funny, and smart work, a story driven forward by Sam Munson's gift for building narrative reality in an increasingly unreal world. The Sofa is a wonderful book." -- Donald Antrim, author of The Emerald Light in the Air "Munson's prose is understated, competent, comic, and beautiful. In other words, The Sofa is everything you want from literary horror.

Perfect dementia-core." --Gabriel Smith, author of Brat "A weird hug of a novel. A nightmare, warm and cozy." --Adam Levin, author of Mount Chicago "This was the most fun I've ever had reading a work of horror. With no chapter to break the tension, Sam Munson's The Sofa reads like a short story--I couldn't stop turning the pages! The central conflict of man vs. sofa is always in view, and the absurdist humor paired with psychological horror keeps things interesting. with a literary feel. I was on the edge of my (sofa) seat the whole time!" --Mary Wahlmeier Bracciano, Raven Book Store (Lawrence, KS) "The Sofa resides at the intersection of The Diary of a Nobody, The Shining, and Eraserhead.

It is subtle and gripping and generally quite fabulous." --Simon Doonan, author of The Camp 100 - Glorious Flamboyance from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X "The Sofa is a wildly entertaining conceptual novel that threatens to upend Mr. Montessori's family life despite our tense protestations to leave it alone." --Mauro Javier Cárdenas, author of Aphasia and American Abductions Praise for Sam Munson "Munson is a champion stylist." --Jason Sheehan, NPR (from their review of Dog Symphony ) "The strangest transmogrification of a writer in recent memory." -- Kirkus Reviews (from their review of Dog Symphony ).