Emily Carroll’s A Guest in the House is a slow, suffocating horror story about marriage, grief, and the stories we inherit from other people’s lives. Abby thinks she’s escaped loneliness when she marries a gentle widowed dentist, stepping into a ready-made family and a quiet suburban routine. But Sheila, the dead first wife, never really leaves the house: she lingers in photographs, in gossip, in the way rooms feel wrong. As Abby becomes fixated on what truly happened, desire, fear, and self-doubt twist together, turning domestic space into something unstable, haunted, and almost unrecognizable, asking what it means to live inside a life built from someone else’s absence. Graphic Novel, First Second, E.M. Carroll, 2023 First Second 978-1250255525 E.M. Carroll 2023