The Small Assassin

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The Small Assassin | Ray Bradbury

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The Small Assassin | Ray Bradbury

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The title story is really creepy! A mother nearly dies in childbirth and develops the delusion that her new-born baby is trying to murder her - but is it a delusion? The other stories are a mixture of psychological horror, chillers and "tales of the unexpected". Bradbury successfully conjures up images of stifling small-town America and fever-dreams that are sometimes reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe. ??

Bookwomble There is also in many of the stories a rye and macbare humour. There are images and atmospheres in these stories that will definitely stay with me. I particularly like the title story and also The Crowd, about a man haunted by a near-death experience, The Man Upstairs, which has a nicely comic-horror twist and The Cistern, a small Poe-like jewel of madness. 5y

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