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A review by ravenbait
When You've Been Bad: Three Dark Tales by Dora Badger
4.0
These are modern fairy tales with a literary bent. Of the three, I think "Let the Bones be Burned" was my favourite, but each has something to recommend it. "Chill", the shortest of three, opens the collection with a man trapped in a cabin in frozen woods by an intelligent swarm of ice creatures. Like the other stories -- a spice shop burns down, Rapunzel hunts internet predators -- the simplistic plot description fails to capture the poetry of the voice.
This is intellectual horror, the kind that worms its way inside and stays with you. Recommended.
This is intellectual horror, the kind that worms its way inside and stays with you. Recommended.