The Houseguest and Other Stories
Amparo Dávila
The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly crafted―you’ll finish each one gasping for air. With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife, some sort of evil lurks in every shadow, delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After reading The Houseguest ―Dávila’s debut collection in English―you’ll wonder how this secret was kept for so long.
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engaging, finished super fast but i'm not a huge horror person. they basically described my nightmares but they were someone else's and more creature-based.
0I thought these stories were interesting, but too many of them felt indistinguishable for me. The majority felt like the same story with slight tweaks. The ones that stood out to me most were “The Funeral” and “The Last Summer,” both of which I recommend to fans of Kafka’s work.
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