Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Lacke’s scream of primal, bottomless sorrow filled the stairwell from top to bottom, streamed through the mail slots, keyholes, transformed the high-rise into one big tomb erected in the memory of love, hope. Larry shivered; he had never heard anything like it before. You don’t cry like this. You’re not allowed to cry like this. You die if you cry like this.