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An absolutely gorgeous fairy tale, I am tempted to call this a perfect book -- and I honestly cannot recall feeling that way about any other book I have ever read before. I picked this up around midnight or so, and literally could not put it down. It's a very fast read -- I finished in just a few short hours. I don't want to say much more for fear of ruining this beautiful story. Please, read this one.
The End of the Sentence is a collaboration between Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard. That alone is a serious indicator of the quality the reader can expect, but it's truly magical how well these two write together. Usually with a collab, you can pick out each voice here and there, but this time I genuinely wasn't able to do so - it was everything good about both of them.Malcolm Mays is a man at the tail end of a whole lot of nothing good. He's lost his family, appears to have no friends, but...
Malcolm Mays is very close to the end of his rope. After the collapse of his terrible marriage, after a horrific tragedy, he has spent close to his last dollars on a house in rural Ione, Oregon. His first sight of the house confirms that there’s plenty of work to be done, but also that there’s something good to work with. When he opens the front door to his new home for the first time, he finds a huge pile of mail written to the dead owner of the house from an inmate at the federal prison two hu...
An exquisite ghost / monster / love story about loss and pain and repentance set in the Oregon desert and spanning hundreds of years. Haunting, lovely, atmospheric as all hell, and truly inventive. Highly, highly recommended.
First, I would like to explain I do not read horror novels. I am a wuss. So when I bought this novella--I'm an admirer of Kat Howard's short stories--and realized it was spooky, I decided to read it in the mornings so I wouldn't be too scared. But what I didn't take into consideration is that I get up at 5:00 am, and it's still dark! Therefore, even though this isn't particularly frightening, I still managed to freak myself out every morning reading it:) For example, one night at 2:00 in the mor...
3.5 stars. Enjoyed this novella of a weird house and a dead/alive convict writing letters to the new owner of said weird house. Has a slightly spooky feel, with ghostly happenings in the house, and some mystery surrounding the events that put the man (?) in jail many years ago.
Absolutely amazing. Draws you in right from the start and holds your attention to the end and beyond. A very well told and engaging story. The authors paint a vivid picture while bringing the story to life.
Oregon gothic, with ghosts and generations of terrible sacrifices. Good start and an intriguing haunted house, but it just seemed to go on and on, and by the end I was beyond caring about Malcolm or any of the people or how it turned out. No doubt this has an audience, but not my dish of blood.
An amazing concept, and a refreshing take on several horror tropes. I've devoured the first half of this novella, anxious to find out what happens next. In the second half, however, everything seemed to happen too fast, the protagonist was merely reduced to the narrator of the story, with little agency, and the ending left me a little disappointed. There's too much in this story to fit in a novella, although it's still a beautiful one.
Nobody who hasn't been hurt can work a miracle.This book kept me up until 3 AM. Frightening, beautiful, bewildering prose wrapped around a surprisingly compassionate core. A lot of world-building details are packed into the very end, which made me slow down when all I wanted to do was continue zooming through the story like a bullet. But aside from that, this book was pretty nearly perfect.
After a personal tragedy, Malcolm Mays spends the last of his funds to purchase a rundown house in a remote Oregon town. Upon arrival, Malcolm receives letters from a Dusha Chuchonnyhoof who claims to own Malcolm's house. Dusha writes that he is a prisoner in a nearby jail serving two lifetimes and a day –117 years-- and the end of his sentence approaches, upon which he shall return to his house, Malcolm's new house. In preparation for his homecoming, Dusha requires Malcolm to perform a gruesome...
pretty incomprehensible - had an impossible time flowing this one. way too much jammed into it.
this is...exquisite and terrifying and Weird. part folk horror, part fairy tale, part psychogeography, part...something else entirely. emotionally rich, vividly imagined, and deftly (co-)written. very strongly recommended.
The End of the Sentence is a slightly creepy character piece. The narrative protagonist purchases a dilapidated house in a small town, after experiencing an initially unrevealed trauma. Within the house he uncovers a small mountain of letters. All were sent from a nearby prison. All indicate that the writer is soon to leave the prison, and return to the house. At the same time, the house begins to behave in unexpected and (at least initially) unexplainable ways.This is really a piece about both
