In recent years there has been a wealth of Argentinian horror collections from writers such as Mariana Enríquez, Samanta Schweblin, Augustina Bazterrica, as well as the anthology Through the Night Like a Snake. Added to their ranks is Tomás Downey, author of the taut and frightening Diving Board, wonderfully translated by Sarah Moses.
Each of the five stories in this collection stretch the boundaries of contemporary literary fiction and in doing so establish Galway’s unique voice and style.
Paxman is a whiz at threading this complex and evolving history into a recognizably Christie-esque formula, whether it’s Death on the Nile or A Haunting in Venice.
One Book, Two Reviews: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
Seventeen years ago, something came between a group of university friends. This particular weekend though they are reunited as one of the group, Alfred, has bought an old house in their university town. He renovated it into The Hitchcock Hotel, a homage to his favourite director, which is now celebrating its first anniversary.
When Eve, new co-owner of a house on Heritage Lane, number to be determined… opens the door to a sweet family looking to revisit the father’s family home, she desperately wants to say no and worked up the courage, and fake use of her partner, to say it.
She adds a fresh twist on the typical crime fiction novel by adding a vampyr narrative, exploring the dangers of colonization and the bigotry that can sometimes lie inside small-town communities.
The title The Years Shall Run like Rabbits is from a W.H. Auden poem, but that might be your last connection to Earth as we know it in this outwardly tale.
The Angel of Indian Lake is the third book of the Indian Lake Trilogy, and we can tell that Jones had definite plans for his final installment to go out with a bang.
There are many absolute layers of haunt throughout this well written, fast-paced, romantic ghost story. Complete with drama, angst and forgiveness, The Widow and The Will is much more than Lindy’s story, it is the story of a village and a city and the journey between.
It has been a few weeks since I finished reading All Things Seen and Unseen and my head is still spinning. This novel was hard to put down and is proving even harder to forget.
Grey Dog falls right in line with my current literary obsession: creeping, unsettling, psychological horror. I was ready to be disturbed, and I was, in the best way.
A debut short story collection investigating the strange and unexpected intersections of loneliness and connection.
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