Extreme Makeover, Gothic Edition

“A Catskill varmint hotel turned quaint summer cabin. A half-charred farmhouse hiked up on carjacks overhauled into a popular farm-to-table restaurant. A haunted gingerbread with a basement full of graves, exorcised and revitalized as a church. A successful career by any measure. Four decades of hard work Vic Greener’s family can look back on with pride,” writes Harris Lahti with characteristic fragmented eloquence toward the end of his excellent debut novel, Foreclosure Gothic (Astra House, 2025).