![]() ![]() (The late, great editor Gardner Dozois once said that something like 90% of a story’s impact comes from its last line. ![]() ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Their father has disappeared, but not before warning them: “Don’t answer the door for anyone! Don’t answer it! Knocking means the world is over!” It’s one of the collection’s more conventional pieces - you can see where it’s going from the outset - but the last two lines still resonate with a “The Lady or the Tiger?” urgency. Growing Things and Other Stories - Ebook written by Paul Tremblay. In the title work, two teenage sisters hole up in their house, trying to avoid a green apocalypse that began in the soybean fields of the Midwest. ![]() The disintegration of family, particularly of a father who once formed its center, crops up in many of these stories. Tremblay’s bestselling novels “A Head Full of Ghosts,” “The Cabin at the End of the World” and “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock” all play with the traditions of supernatural writing - ghosts, unreliable narrators, folklore, urban legend - and the strongest tales in “Growing Things” continue this exploration of what the genre can do. Growing Things shows Tremblay is as adept at short fiction as he is at writing novels and proves he’s one of the best, most innovative writers in contemporary horror. ![]()
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