A review by emperorcupcake
Ghost Lake by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

4.0

A great collection of spooky, interconnected tales from the aptly-named Ghost Lake. I enjoyed all 13 stories. There's something about Indigenous horror stories that really appeal to (i.e., scare) me. Maybe it's the often-remote locations, where it seems like anything could happen. Maybe it's because they're based on actual legends so they feel like they could be real - maybe they are. They feel so present, they're in the land itself. They've always been there. That's the kind of story I like. Ancient, unknowable, yet weirdly familiar; the thing you see out of the corner of your eye when you get lost in the woods. That blur of movement, and then it's gone, and you wonder if it was really there or just your mind playing tricks. I like to think the woods and lakes and mountains are full of such things, even now. It makes our endless, homogenous suburban landscape a little more bearable, thinking of the hidden, magic corners of the world that will outlive every Starbucks and Babies-r-Us.

And shoutout to my absolute fave character, Euwen! It really would be cool to be a crow.