#it's a horrible fascinating touch and I give the author credit for carrying it off; even if the rest of the book was a tad uneven
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also it's October, so who's got fun and off-the-beaten-path recommendations for horror books, horror movies, or point-and-click horror games?
#thinking about last year and how much I enjoyed playing all those games on itch.io. I would do that again.#also I just finished ''Midnight Rooms'' which was a fun little jaunt into gothic horror#while it wasn't an unimpeachable debut I thought the most impressive part#was how skillfully the author painted the heroine's passivity.#she is a Good Girl and does what she's told; she ignores; she turns away; she allows.#the fact that she's mixed-race makes this even more poignant. the straightjacket is tighter. she is watched by unblinking eyes#and she watches herself too; the double-vision of racism and womanhood is so present.#it's a horrible fascinating touch and I give the author credit for carrying it off; even if the rest of the book was a tad uneven#(not to mention I think it's hard to create a genuinely victorian heroine rather than a modern-day heroine in a flowy dress...)#the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind#from the bookshelf
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