But some stories are too detailed, front-loaded clumsily with character back story that drags down their momentum.
Perhaps it’s the increasingly unnerving letters the story’s traveling salesman receives, including one delivered by a raven.
Perhaps it’s the diarrhea and professional failure that befall the salesman when he ignores said letters.
And perhaps it’s that the salesman ends up sweating and cornered by a terror, all because he failed to return a library book.
Vivid and twisted, ironic and stirring, the varied stories in the collection are told with verve, even when blameless characters meet gruesome ends.
Persons:
sleepovers, Ogundiran’s, factly
Organizations:
verve