She’s brings with her some history of her own. Newly married, playing the wife new to the house, playing the detective newly responsible, playing the stepmother to a precocious eight year old. (Don’t they always, in these kinds of stories?)Ĭallie’s in all sorts of new situations right from the get-go. NYCTOPHOBIA ( Amazon) is a horror novel by Christopher Fowler about a relatively young woman named Calico Shaw that gets married to a much older, very rich man and moves to the Spanish countryside where they purchase a home that has history. In the meantime, there’s this one, and it ain’t half bad. I’d love to find me some really good horror. The only example that I could think of, in fact, was the movie “The Ring.” Can you think of any others? Drop a comment here, if you do. Makes horror stories so much better when they do. Just please… NO!” Instead offinding these words bubbling from my lips, however, I frequently find myself saying, “Why are they going in there again? Do they WANT to die a horrible, gruesome death?” There are relatively few instances of the former that I’ve come across, and I just wish there were more. How often is it that you come across a horror story (novel or even movie for that matter) where the main POV character has both drive and motive for doing the things that make us go, “Oh please, don’t go in there.
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