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Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark
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Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are our own thoughts coming out to play. Celia Fremlin, an expert on portraying the inner turmoil of everyday people, captures both the psychological and the supernatural in thirteen horror stories, her first collection of short fiction.
Playing "The Quiet Game" with her boisterous twins drives one young mother to seek refuge in their favorite place—even if it is a land of make-believe. When her dying former lover makes his last request, it's one demand too many for the woman he kept under his thumb in "The Betrayal." Jealous of her husband's young love, a middle-aged woman tries to remain "For Ever Fair," until she sees the living proof of a doctor who can turn back the clock. A date night for a busy couple transforms into a living nightmare when they leave their daughter in the care of "The Baby-Sitter." And after a rage-filled stranger comes to call, a teenage girl finally bonds with her obsessively tidy mother in "The Hated House."
Tales of twisted paranoia, passion, and despair reside in this "outstanding collection . . . all are well-written and all are possible and none should be read when alone in a dark house" (
).
"Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin." —
"Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense." —
"Britain's Patricia Highsmith." —
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“4.5 ⭐️
Glaçant et dérangeant, avec parfois une pointe d'humour noir. De manière insidieuse, Celia Fremlin réussit à nous faire ressentir de la peur et du malaise en quelques mots. Avec son écriture décalée, elle glisse dans certaines histoires des commentaires sur la jalousie, la parentalité, la vieillesse... J'ai vraiment beaucoup aimé lire ces nouvelles, avec une mention spéciale pour "The New House" (qui m'a fait me dire : "c'est exactement ça que j'aime dans la littérature d'horreur !") et "The Special Gift", mes deux préférées.”
About Celia Fremlin
Celia Fremlin (1914–2009) was born in Kent and spent her childhood in Hertfordshire, before studying at Oxford. During World War II, she served as an air-raid warden before becoming involved with the Mass Observation Project, collaborating on a study of women workers, War Factory. After the loss of her husband and youngest daughter to separate tragedies, Fremlin briefly relocated to Geneva. In 1985, she married Leslie Minchin, with whom she lived until his death in 1999. Over four decades, Fremlin wrote sixteen celebrated novels—including the classic summer holiday mystery
—one book of poetry and three short-story collections. Her debut novel
won the Edgar Award in 1960.
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