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Dark Tales

Shirley Jackson

Start date: November 3, 2021

Finish date: November 20, 2021

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Why we're reading this: On a quest for Shirley Jackson's most creepy stories, which seems to be what she does best.…more
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Jan 23, 2022 Traveller rated it it was amazing

Shelves: short-fiction, favorites, what-the

This is a superbly crafted short story which has definitely raised Jackson's ability to create artful short fiction in my esteem. Reads as labyrinthine and playfully mystifying as anything by Borges, but more richly visual. At first glance it is light and beautiful, but also strange and puzzling, with darker tones forming and intruding more and more towards the end.

To give anything away about the story itself, would be a crime, as it is up to the reader to spot the subtle clues of things that " ...more

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Nov 05, 2021 Amy (Other Amy) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021, x-kindle, x-own-it, geography-of-the-heart, study-of-evil, xx-collection, livin-the-dream, ghosts-and-hauntings, awful-people-are-awful, war-of-the-sexes

Harold Bloom is an ass. Review to come.

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Reviewing individual stories as I go:

The Possibility of Evil: ★★★★☆ Delicious and delightful.
Louisa, Please Come Home: ★★★★★ Also delicious and delightful. Rating rising the more I think about it; I think I'll go ahead and bump it up.
Paranoia ★★★★☆ Suffers from having been redone better by later writers. (Actually, I underrated this one on first read. Still suffers some from later r ...more

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