My Men
My Men follows the life of Brynhild Storset who emigrates form Norway to the United States and eventually becomes Belle Gunness, arguably the first serial killer in American history.
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My Men follows the life of Brynhild Storset who emigrates form Norway to the United States and eventually becomes Belle Gunness, arguably the first serial killer in American history.
What follows is a fever dream of decay and the juxtaposition of awakening and discovering blurred boundaries between individuals, bodies, sexuality, and plant life.
I first encountered her writing in McNally’s re-issue of The Stepdaughter, and I loved how Blackwood could pack so many layers into such a short novel. So I was excited to try another of her books..
Both A Helping Hand and A Dark Corner are well under two hundred pages, but each of them packs a disturbing punch and were well ahead of their time.
This book is a selection of work spanning multiple decades, and particularly has a focus on showcasing Ocampo’s tendency to be both insightful and at the same time grotesque, haunting, and fantastic.
It’s not the usual gothic fare, but instead is a bit more subtle in its spookiness. However, there is a spooky graveyard and a few scary desolate locations.
Domestic horror is a sub-genre that allows for so many subtleties and so many facets of the disturbing.
More powerful than gore, I find an eerie atmosphere is what really makes a collection like Ghostroots tick.
Summer Cold It’s been one of those messy, chaotic weeks. Lots of phone calls, lots of errands shoved into not a lot of time. Reading has gotten shoved into the backburner, and we haven’t had a lot of time to spend just quietly on the sofa together. That lack of time and reading time leads […]
Enríquez loves a twist ending, and ghosts and horrors found in unlikely places.