A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
In “The Dead Thing,” a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with “the dead thing” inside. He won’t show it to her and he won’t let the box out of his sight. In “The Last Conversation,” a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking.
The title novella, “The Beast You Are,” is a mini epic in which the destinies and secrets of a village, a dog, and a cat are intertwined with a giant monster that returns to wreak havoc every thirty years.
A masterpiece of literary horror and psychological suspense, The Beast You Are is a fearlessly imagined collection from one of the most electrifying and innovative writers working today.
MY THOUGHTS
I have another book by this author to read but saw this one and had heard good things from someone i follow on instagram and youtube so thought it was a short story collection so i could see if i enjoyed the author’s writing and some of the stories in this book i enjoyed but some fell flat for me. This book was from the horror section of the library so i was expecting to be scared but i just found the stories weird but not scary. I enjoyed the first couple of stories and thought ok this is going well and then a couple i was just like what! Some of the stories in here go on for quite a few pages like the last story but then there are a couple that are really short like one or two pages. Also at the end the author does a story notes part where he talks you through his thought process for each story which i thought was a nice touch so you could understand what he was thinking when he wrote each story. If you think this is something you might like to read i will enclose a link so you can buy yourself a copy.
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