The Houseguest: And Other Stories
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.
- Author
- Amparo Dávila, Matthew Gleeson, Audrey Harris
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 144
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780811228213
- Genres
- horror, fiction, fantasy, anthologies, literature, collections
- Release date
- 2018
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