so for obvious reasons I've started rereading all the DWJ books I own
Not even willingly, it just sort of happened. Finished Conrad's Fate yesterday and Time of the Ghost just now. Eight Days of Luke tomorrow, I'm thinking.
You would think after ten years of reading and rereading Time of the Ghost would have dulled it for me by now, but no. That last page? Shivers. Every time.
I'm happy to see her remembered as a Grand Master of fantasy-- because there's no doubt that she absolutely was-- but goddamn, could she ever write good horror when she wanted to.
This is a recommendation, for people who have not read it: Time of the Ghost is a YA horror novel about loss of identity and the terrible things children do to cope with neglect, which looks like a book about evil dolls and hauntings and demon/goddess-worship. The narrator is the ghost of one of the four Melford sisters-- but she's not sure which, or why she is a ghost. Only that something is wrong.
It is a lot more disturbing then I realised as a kid, and I'm not just talking about the supernatural parts.
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You would think after ten years of reading and rereading Time of the Ghost would have dulled it for me by now, but no. That last page? Shivers. Every time.
I'm happy to see her remembered as a Grand Master of fantasy-- because there's no doubt that she absolutely was-- but goddamn, could she ever write good horror when she wanted to.
This is a recommendation, for people who have not read it: Time of the Ghost is a YA horror novel about loss of identity and the terrible things children do to cope with neglect, which looks like a book about evil dolls and hauntings and demon/goddess-worship. The narrator is the ghost of one of the four Melford sisters-- but she's not sure which, or why she is a ghost. Only that something is wrong.
It is a lot more disturbing then I realised as a kid, and I'm not just talking about the supernatural parts.
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