Song: Cities Last Broadcast – Lights Out
Tea: Prince of Wales
“The subliminal mind has many dark, unhappy corners, after all. Imagine something loosening itself from one of those corners. Let’s call it a—a germ. And let’s say conditions prove right for that germ to develop—to grow, like a child in the womb. What would this little stranger grow into? A sort of shadow-self, perhaps: a Caliban, a Mr Hyde. A creature motivated by all the nasty impulses and hungers the conscious mind had hoped to keep hidden away: things like envy and malice and frustration…”
When october comes to an end nothing is better than a ghost story!
This time i choose The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
It’s an interesting, and unsettling, story that takes place in Warwickshire, England, a few years after the II World War.
The facts of the story are presented by Faraday, a country doctor who returns to Hundreds Hall, an ancient 18th-century mansion that he visited when he was a child.
The house that was once a noble and rich palace, is now just a big and abandoned building.
Now that the war is over the only inhabitants of Hundreds Hall are the three components of the Ayres family: Mrs Ayres, her daughter Caroline and her son Roderick.
Every one of them is confronted by some problems: for Roderick and Caroline there is the difficult economic situation and the still-lingering traumas of the war, for Mrs Ayres there is the constant, and haunting, memory of a lost daughter.
Anguish and terror falls upon the family when strange and unesplicable things starts to happen inside the house…
Quick recommendation: if the situation begins to be too scary be like the characters of this book and…
Make some tea!
About the author:
Sarah Waters (21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist.
She is best known for her novels set in Victorian Society and featuring lesbian protagonists.
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