The house that groaned is set in 141 rottin road a block of flats that is home to a very peculiar cast of characters theres the young man who is only attracted to diseased women the old lady who literally disappears into the background and an obese woman determinedly following an indulgent and hedonistic lifestyle. The house that groaned is an attractive book with nice thick pages and a cut away cover personally i disliked fransmans style when drawing people and didnt always feel that her illustration effectively conveyed their character. Karrie fransmans debut graphic novel the house that groaned makes a number of emotional and narrative feints before coming to an over the top shockingly violent conclusionits a story or rather six stories about the inhabitants of the six flats that make up a rickety victorian era building. The house that groaned is a graphic novel that explores bodies and the spaces they inhabit it is set in an old victorian tenement housing six lonely individuals who could only have stepped out of the pages of a comic book. The house that groaned is an attractive book with nice thick pages and a cut away cover personally i disliked fransmans style when drawing people and didnt always feel that her illustration effectively conveyed their character