Death on the Air: and other stories
The Hair Wreath and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Halli Villegas
- Publisher
- ChiZine Publications
- Year
- 2010;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Girls and boys disappear; couples caught in the heat and suppressed rage of urban life are haunted by the ghosts of their own making; neighbourhoods drift in the murky atmosphere of buried emotions, where the echoes of distrust and dissonance prove that something just isn't right.
These strange stories gather and weave themselves together into a wreath of memories, rife with an atmospheric and ominous creep redolent of Shirley Jackson. This eerie collection illustrates the disconnect amongst people and the places they inhabit, the gap that allows the supernatural to flourish.
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