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“A small creature swallowed whole by a monster…”

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

May 9, 2019 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

“Horror,” Laura Miller says in the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Haunting of Hill House, “turns on the dissolution of boundaries […] between the outside of the body and everything that ought to stay inside.” Maybe the way horror lurks in liminal spaces, only rarely coming right out in the open, has something to do with how much I enjoy the genre. And The Haunting of Hill House serves masterfully as our guide to those cracked and uncertain places.  

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: cbr11, classic, classic horror, Creepy, creepy read, enthusiastic five stars, Fiction, horror, ReadWomen, ReadWomen2019, unreliable narrator

sistercoyote's CBR11 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: cbr11, classic, classic horror, Creepy, creepy read, enthusiastic five stars, Fiction, horror, ReadWomen, ReadWomen2019, unreliable narrator ·
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Well this was definitely… different and peculiar…Vintage Photos are Awesome

May 27, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: Jacob has always been ordinary, he’s lived an ordinary life though he yearns for the extraordinary. His grandfather used to tell him fantastical stories of his childhood and of kids with unique and peculiar powers. Jacob believes the stories until he watches his grandfather die in his own arms. After finding a mysterious letter, he knows that he must travel to the island of his grandfather’s childhood. What he finds there is even stranger than he expected and Jacob begins an extraordinary […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: creepy read, trilogy, vintage photos, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: creepy read, trilogy, vintage photos, YA ·
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