![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone else in my family is dead.”Įven the start of We Have Always Lived in the Castle is quite a chilling one told by the youngest daughter of the Blackwood family Merricat (from Mary Katherine) as she tells us that in a crumbling old building, we presume a castle, surrounded by woodland live her, her sister and her aging Uncle Julian (who seems to have Alzheimer’s and even believes Merricat is dead) as outcasts from the nearby village. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. ![]() I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. ![]() The book in question was Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle which is a book that after seeing wonderful reviews of by Claire, Simon T, and Kim I have been on the hunt for this book along with the fact that Shirley Jackson is supposed to be a mistress of the chilling. I found what I thought would be the perfect read free with The Times last week as I mentioned. As it was Halloween during the weekend just past I wanted to read something that was sufficiently spooky or ghostly or chilling. ![]()
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