The Houseguest
And Other Stories
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3.7 • 15 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller
Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted—you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest—Dávila’s debut collection in English—you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
Customer Reviews
3.5 stars
Wish I could do half stars, 3.5 seems more accurate but I’ll round up.
Interesting stories and easy read, some make you think a little too, which is good. The only reason I am knocking out 1.5 stars is that most stories felt repetitive. Maybe I should have waited a few days before reading the next short story, as digesting these one right after the other intensifies those feelings of redundancy.