![]() The title story kicks the collection off. But where do those inexplicable monsters/ghosts/malicious weeds come from? We aren’t supposed to ask, and that’s okay. Also on view are the author’s quirky sense of humor and coy, self-referential style - some of the most interesting stories feature a horror-writer protagonist who resembles Tremblay. ![]() The unexplained is clearly on display in Paul Tremblay’s new collection, Growing Things and Other Stories. ![]() With horror, be prepared for the weird to appear for no discernible reason, which makes it all the scarier. That is what distinguishes the genre from, say, science fiction or fantasy or magical realism, where the fictive world is constructed in a way for the bizarre to be perfectly logical. ![]() Horror fiction, at its most successful, evokes fear or disgust or dread, but the source of those emotions is usually - though, not always - rooted in the supernatural. ![]()
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