5/11/2023 0 Comments A collapse of horses stories![]() But is he really damaged or just crazy or just imagining it all? Evenson leaves the reader guessing so that we’re not sure whether to be relieved or alarmed when the doctor gets ready to drill holes for the steel plate in the skull. So it is that in one story in this collection, “Click,” its very title filled with ominous portent, the protagonist is suffering brain trauma and cannot remember something most terrible that he has done. ![]() But does that shadowy, scary figure even exist? There’s the question. ![]() And what good would a gun do against a ghost, anyway? So you grab, naturally, a book, “the largest and heaviest one in the stack,” and hope for the best. What do you do when, in a waking dream-or, better, a dream from which waking seems impossible-you have to defend yourself from a spectral figure that’s flitting through your pad? If you’re one of Evenson’s characters, you might not have the resources or the will to keep a gun handy. ![]() Atmospheric, sometimes-nightmarish tales by the ever macabre Evenson ( Windeye, 2012, etc.). ![]()
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