Varieties of The Fantastic in Fiction

This is my first exposure to Carmen Maria Machado’s work, and I am glad I didn’t have to endure another day without being familiar with it. Not that my preference is relevant, but I find her work quite enjoyable. Captivating aspects of Machado’s work in both “The Husband Stitch” and “Inventory” are the tone and format […]

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The Husband Stitch is an interesting take on one of my favorite short horror stories “The Green Ribbon” A story of a girl with a green ribbon around her neck who never allows her husband to remove it till old age, only for her head to fall off. This variation of the story played very […]

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In the next two stories from Millhauser that we were required to read for today, both “The Room in the Attic” and “Dangerous Laughter” dealt with the forbidden and its attraction. The first story, “The Room in the Attic,” relied heavily on the differences of light and total darkness as a technique for pulling the […]

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