The book that haunts me: 7 experts on the scariest thing they’ve ever read

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But I kept looking at it until I moved gradually to stronger fare: anthologies of classic gothic tales edited by. Miller’s book was undeniably a landmark in the development of my literary interests. I never go anywhere without silver bullets.short story, “The Flypaper.” It starts with 11-year-old Sylvia, unloved and unlovely, riding the bus to her hated music lesson in the drab outskirts of a provincial town.

What makes the novel so scary isn’t the blood or the fangs. It’s this confluence of terror and beauty. Dracula is a figure of grandeur and grotesque elegance. He’s not just a monster: he’s an enigma, charming yet deadly, poetic yet predatory. The stories shift between satirical realism and brutal surrealism, often when you least expect it. A tale of poverty tourism, for example, morphs into a nightmare in which the protagonist no longer knows if a young mother and child she met have been murdered or never even existed. Elsewhere, a neighbor concerned about the welfare of a child has a shocking encounter with the monstrous that completely inverts our assumptions.

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