![]() Her scattered bones sink into the rich changing humus. Ward writes, “What was Dee feeds the earth. ![]() Like most horror, Ward’s book takes its emotional undercurrents from unavoidable mortality like great horror, it utilizes fear to force readers to contemplate that mortality. Most of the book takes place in Ted’s house or the surrounding woods area. It shocks us into remembering we are human in the sense that we are mere flesh and bone, yet we are also extraordinary creatures able to contemplate our existence.īroadly, the novel follows Ted, a man living alone in his mid-30s, his daughter Lauren, his lesbian Bible-reading cat Olivia and a woman named Dee who lost her younger sister in an abduction years ago. ![]() It exposes our deepest feelings like a raw nerve, like cold air on minty teeth. It is a genre that allows for exploration of the awful, terrible, horrible parts of humanity in order to find something that is strangely beautiful. ![]() This is the kind of book that reminds me why I love horror. “The Last House on Needless Street” by Catriona Ward is the kind of horror that seeps into your bones, the kind that makes you think you might be a little messed up for even reading it, the kind that makes you want to stare the author straight in the eyes and ask, “Who hurt you?” ![]()
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