Review of Josie Turner, “Sycamore Heights”, Luna Station Quarterly 26 (2016): Read online. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
Sometimes all you need is a good opening line or two to utterly sympathise with a character. In this case,
The Masons would not have booked their beds in advance. They were not that organised.
Oh, Masons, I feel you. I am not that organised either.
The more I read about the Masons, the more I liked them (and identified with them!). When their foibles dropped them in the lap of something more sinister and my laughter turned to grim delight at Turner’s deft working of horror, I found myself enjoying this story a lot more than many horror stories I read.
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