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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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Comoran and Robin Complete Me

January 27, 2016 by Melina 4 Comments

The third installment of the Comoran Strike series begins with yet another gory mystery.  Someone delivers a woman’s severed leg to Robin.  While she’s sickened by this (you know, like people are wont to do when they receive body parts in the mail), Strike is less grossed out and more concerned that someone from his past is sending a very clear message that Robin’s life is in danger.  While the police are focusing their investigation on one of the four people Comoran believes it could […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: career of evil, CBR8, Comoran strike, enthusiastic five stars, Melina, Robin

Melina's CBR8 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: career of evil, CBR8, Comoran strike, enthusiastic five stars, Melina, Robin ·
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