Welcome to the Deep Estate: A Surreal Sci-Fi Comedy of Vampires, Conspiracy, and Bureaucratic Nonsense

By Kevin Kane

Here's a little secret: Reality is insane.

A death cult led by a box of Kraft mac and cheese. The Bermuda Triangle. Lizard people walking among us. When every conspiracy theory, urban legend, and fever-dream headline is true, someone has to keep it all cataloged, contained, and out of sight. That someone is the Bureau of the Bizarre.

John Doe always thought his paranoid father was crazy, then the crazy showed up on his doorstep with a job offer. Now he's a Collector for the Bureau, partnered with Edith Sinner, a metanatural vampire with a murder glare and a past that refuses to stay buried. Their office is The Deep Estate, a liminal space carved out of The Backrooms, where nightmares take shape and reality bends to the collective unconscious. Their coworkers are anything but normal. Carrie is a stab-happy flying pencil. Marybeth is a Victorian doll with serious Devil Daddy issues. And then there is the Murder Clown...

But when John and Edie stumble onto a conspiracy the Bureau was never meant to see, reality itself is rewritten to frame them for murder. Hunted by their own and pursued through impossible corridors, they have to expose the truth before the Deep Estate's secrets swallow them whole.

Equal parts cosmic horror and comic absurdity, Welcome to the Deep Estate is what happens when Men in Black stumbles into the Backrooms carrying a copy of Hitchhiker's Guide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKNBHRBS
• ISBN13: 9798294895662
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Oozes craziness!

You want something totally off the wall and crazy? This book fits the bill. I would not recommend any conspiracy theorists reading this though. Any off the wall theory is proven true in this first book of the weirdness of the Deep Estate, especially in the back rooms. It is a good introduction for new hires, John Doe and Edith on their first job in the back rooms, meeting Carrie and discovering that lizard people are making a power grab. It is best just to suspend all disbelief and prepare for a wild ride where anything can happen when picking up this book. Be warned though that it does end on quite the cliffhanger but I am interested in seeing who will come out on top in the end, be it John or the lizard people who are surprisingly not all that bad (at least some of them). I am glad I got the chance to read this oddball of a story!