![]() Russell provides readers with a different type of short story. Before I had even finished wading my way through the intense long-short stories, I realized I had discovered a new favorite author and loaded up my online shopping cart with her other works accordingly (including Swamplandia!) Sorted into eight long short stories (some of them novella length), this collection served as my first introduction to the acclaimed Karen Russell. ![]() Always seeking some new thing, I’m a sucker for horror concepts transformed and I’m even more compelled by an author’s bravery to go beyond the prejudices of genre and topic to create aura and perception pieces. ![]() Rating: Eight Twilight-Zone Like Short Stories with a Literary Twistīlending the odd, the outlandish, and the absurd with a literary quality and a tongue-and-cheek bow to the bizzaro sub-genre, the write up on Vampires in the Lemon Grove was more than enough to make me giddy with excitement. ![]()
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