# Event Details - **Event Name**: Victor Manibo + Clay McLeod Chapman: The Villa, Once Beloved - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 24 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 24 Nov, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a launch event with Filipino novelist Victor Manibo, discussing his new book The Villa, Once Beloved.About this EventJoin us for a launch event with Filipino novelist Victor Manibo, discussing his new book The Villa, Once Beloved. Joining Victor in conversation is notable horror writer Clay McLeod Chapman. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.Can’t make the event? ACCESSIBILITY:Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by Nov. 10 to request.Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com---------------------------------------------------------------------A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in Lambda Literary fellow Victor Manibo’s new gothic tale of family, homecoming, and postcolonial vengeance . . .Some legacies are best left buried...Villa Sepulveda is a storied relic of the Philippines’ past: a Spanish colonial manor, its moldering stonework filled with centuries-old heirlooms, nestled in a remote coconut plantation. When their patriarch dies mysteriously, his far-flung family returns to their ancestral home. Filipino-American student Adrian Sepulveda invites his college girlfriend, Sophie, a transracial adoptee who knows little about her own Filipino heritage, to the funeral of a man who was entwined with the history of the country itself.Sophie soon learns that there is more to the Sepulvedas than a grand tradition of political and entrepreneurial success. Adrian’s relatives clash viciously amid grief, confusion, and questions about the family curse that their matriarch refuses to answer. When a landslide traps them all in the villa, secrets begin to emerge, revealing sins both intimately personal and unthinkably public.Sifting through fact, folklore, and fiction, Sophie finds herself at the center of a reckoning. Did a mythical demon really K*ll Adrian’s grandfather? How complicit are the Sepulvedas in the country’s oppressive history? As a series of ill omens befall the villa, Sophie must decide whom to trust—and whom to flee—before the family’s true legacy comes to take its revenge... https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/34222020-9df7-11f0-ace1-efa507b012ad-rimg-w986-h740-dc342734-gmir.jpg Photo credit: Sean CollishawVictor Manibo is a Filipino novelist living in New York. A 2022 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow, he is the author of the science fiction novels The Sleepless and Escape Velocity, and the crime novel Dead Note. The Villa, Once Beloved is his first horror novel. Aside from fiction, he also spins fantastical tales in his career as a lawyer. He lives in Queens with his husband and their pets. Find him online at victormanibo.com and on most social media platforms @victormanibo. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/34620f50-9df7-11f0-ace1-efa507b012ad-rimg-w740-h740-dc141414-gmir.jpg Clay McLeod Chapman writes novels, comic books, and children's books, as well as for film and TV. He is the author of the horror novels The Remaking, Whisper Down the Lane, Ghost Eaters, and What Kind of Mother. He also co-wrote Quiet Part Loud, a horror podcast produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw for Spotify. Visit him at . - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/victor-manibo-clay-mcleod-chapman-the-villa-once-beloved/100001645201414719 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fvictor-manibo-clay-mcleod-chapman-the-villa-once-beloved-tickets-1645201414719 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 13.61, max: 34.51, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Strand Book Store - **lat**: 40.73325150000001 - **long**: -73.99095319999999 - **full address**: Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: The Strand Book Store (https://allevents.in/org/the-strand-book-store/22544066) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/167d3a94b94e732d11f1b69fc2802c537e35199393512095a951b0ed96d6966e-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1759234567 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/f1cd08b7a3ac0918194d6ed7cc6c680d80624c5a941750fea02c167ff6054b6a-rimg-w400-h400-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1759234567 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Mon, 24 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 13.61 up to 34.51 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** The Strand Book Store - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** Art, literary-art, Entertainment - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Victor Manibo + Clay McLeod Chapman: The Villa, Once Beloved ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Victor Manibo + Clay McLeod Chapman: The Villa, Once Beloved", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/167d3a94b94e732d11f1b69fc2802c537e35199393512095a951b0ed96d6966e-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1759234567", "startDate": "2025-11-24", "endDate": "2025-11-24", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/victor-manibo-clay-mcleod-chapman-the-villa-once-beloved/100001645201414719", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Strand Book Store", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "828 Broadway", "postalCode": "10003", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.73325150000001", "longitude": "-73.99095319999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a launch event with Filipino novelist Victor Manibo, discussing his new book The Villa, Once Beloved.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2025-11-24", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "13.61", "highPrice": "34.51", "price": "13.61", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/victor-manibo-clay-mcleod-chapman-the-villa-once-beloved/100001645201414719" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/victor-manibo-clay-mcleod-chapman-the-villa-once-beloved/100001645201414719", "price": "34.51", "name": "General Admission + A Copy of the Book" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/victor-manibo-clay-mcleod-chapman-the-villa-once-beloved/100001645201414719", "price": "13.61", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Strand Book Store", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-strand-book-store/22544066", "description": "Strand Book Storewas born in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called “Book Row,” an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. 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