In this version of the American dream, the locks click, the traps bite, and a pulse beats beneath the floorboards. It begins with a botched burglary, as a young boy named Fool slips into a house that smells of wet plaster and secrets. He is not met with valuables, but with a fairy-tale hellscape ruled by the monstrously avaricious Man and Woman. They are landlords of a crumbling empire, symbols...
