pickEerie, unnerving, defamiliarizing stories of everyday spaces: neighborhood, workplace, transportation. Strange spaces, noplace places.
45 “He picked up speed, following the sound that would lead him to the kennels. The road would end eventually. If he kept following it to the end, he would reach someplace. He thought it would be good if they were headed toward the kennels.”
pickI find, as was the case throughout this excellent short story collection, that horror is often the most horrific, compelling, and impactful when it is firmly grounded in how the mundane, how the seemingly ordinary parts of life are often the scariest. From a late night drive in dense fog & life in a village surrounded (seemingly) by dog kennels, to a house on a murky pond, the horror in this books simply oozes across the pages. A good read.
The family is still asleep so it‘s just me, a cup of coffee, and a short story collection from South Korea to start my 2025 reading.
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To the Kennels: And Other Stories | 
