What is it about darkness that makes it easier for us to confess and entrust our deepest fears and thoughts to others and, let us not forget to ourselves? Surely many of us fear it but confession is easier when the lights are out. We are afraid that the lock on the door will not hold.’’ We are afraid that we can’t make it leave.
We are afraid that the thing we fear is already inside. We are afraid that someone will come into our house when we don’t want them to. Haunted houses, home invasions, axe murderers lurking in the attics and chasing us into the basements. One subject that comes up again and again in horror, both new and classic, is houses. From a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter, Things We Say in the Dark is a powerful contemporary collection of feminist stories, ranging from vicious fairy tales to disturbing horror and tender ghost stories.‘’A house is family. These dark tales explore women’s fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum and a cheery account of child’s day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an abandoned swimming pool. The characters in this collection find their aspirations for happy homes, happy families and happy memories dissected and imbued with shimmering menace. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them.
But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. Some things can’t be spoken about in the light of day. You can read this before Things We Say in the Dark PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Things We Say in the Dark written by Kirsty Logan which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
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