by Shirley Jackson
Grade: All right
Not quite my style of creepy. Perhaps because I guessed almost right away who the real murderer was? Although I don't think that was quite the point. The point was Merricat and her insanity. Which was cool, but I was rather glad it was a short book, as it wasn't always gripping.
But it was extremely well written, I think, and worth it in the end.
"RED is the most joyful and dreadful thing in the physical universe; it is the fiercest note, it is the highest light, it is the place where the walls of this world of ours wear thinnest and something beyond burns through. It glows in the blood which sustains and in the fire which destroys us, in the roses of our romance and in the awful cup of our religion. It stands for all passionate happiness, as in faith or in first love." -G. K. Chesterton
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