Let the Old Dreams Die
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The follow-up collection to the international vampire bestseller Let the Right One In
**Includes the short story Border, now a major film**
Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die.
In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death.
These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist's rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Lindqvist's commendable first short-fiction collection, people often are not what they seem, usually to a horrifying degree. "The Border" tells of a customs agent whose relationship with a suspected smuggler uncovers extraordinary truths about the agent's heritage. The celebrities whom a paparazzo photographer thinks he is snapping in "Itsy Bitsy" reveal pedigrees that are as eerie as they are inexplicable. A drowning victim who dies but is resuscitated in "Eternal/Love" comes back to his lover as "something else, although still in human form." In addition to these tales of deceptive identities and their unsettling natures, the book features "Final Processing," a sequel to Handling the Undead, and the title tale, a sequel to Let the Right One In that riffs poignantly on that novel's romantic relationship between a young boy and a vampire girl. Segerberg's translation is murky in places, but the originality of Lindqvist's ideas shines through.
