![]() ![]() ![]() They deliver various accents and genders without them sounding corny or contrived. Each story is narrated very well, the collection of narrators bring the right level of light and dark into the story. The stories that play out, however, are quite chilling, often bizarre and uncomfortable and always captivating. These stories are often set against the the hum drum of every day life over a coffee in the kitchen, cooking for a neighbour, moving to a new neighbourhood. Some are short sharp shocks delivered in a couple of pages others are a longer burn which draw you deeper down as the layers of the characters begin to unfold to show their public and private selves, their interactions with each other, their communities, households and neighbours. I was delighted to find this anthology on Audible and loved each of the stories. I have always enjoyed Shirley Jackson's writing, having started with her novels 'We have always lived at the Castle' and 'The Haunting of Hill House', then came across a reading of The Lottery on BBC Radio 4 and was immediately drawn in to her superb art of short story telling. ![]()
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