![]() ‘Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves, and when we do, it’s back to the void, and it’s time for more guesses toward a better life.’ Fans of interconnected short stories will love the mastery on show and those that love a good old horror novel can also sit back and enjoy how Auerbach weaves this macabre and brutal tale. ![]() But I guess you could also define it as a collection, so it works on two levels. I’d say it was more a disjointed novel told in a unique narrative that I’ve not seen done in fiction before. I discovered after reading that this book originally started out as a NOSLEEP REDDIT article, each of the stories within this book were individual posts, and then the author decided to polish it up and release it as a collection. ![]() I think that’s why I enjoyed it so much, I was a blank canvass and Auerbach spattered me with the creep factor so much, I came out of this book like a Jackson Pollock painting – it was beautifully horrific, intelligently written and I was pretty much blown away. I decided to jump right on in and didn’t even read the blurb before cracking open those pages. They said that it freaked them out no end and well, with a recommendation like that from someone I trust, I just had to discover this book for myself. ![]() I put out a request near my birthday for some horror books to purchase and one person recommended Penpal. I love finding a book by an author that I know nothing about, and that is the case for Penpal and Dathan Auerbach. ![]()
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