As a kid who grew up in the suburbs, in a cul-de-sac, and with an active imagination, few things were scarier when I was small than new neighbors. Though I never imagined they’d be like the emotional vampires in Tim Waggoner’s new novel, The Forever House (hardcover, paperback). In the following email interview, he not only discusses what inspired and influenced this horror-adjacent dark fantasy tale, but also how it was impacted by a certain alien he wrote about recently.