Oct. 25th, 2023

eldritchhobbit: (Haunted)
Dark Academia novel: The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman (2020)

Quote:
Every year the coast guard holds an assembly about the dangers of crossing the causeway that only seems to increase its appeal.

When I get out of the car I can hear the dense pines that stand sentinel over the peninsula creaking in the salt-laced wind… and something else.

A sound like a girl crying.

I freeze and listen. It could just be the wind in the trees or the mournful sigh of the tide retreating over the rocks below the coastal path, but then, peering through the fog, I catch a glimpse of something white that looks like a girl running... I remember the ghosts who are said to haunt these woods.

eldritchhobbit: (Read More SF)
My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is the first of a two-part review of the anthology AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. It's now up on the new episode of the StarShipSofa podcast.

Here is the link! If you listen, I hope you enjoy.

eldritchhobbit: (Haunted)
Dark Academia novel: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid (2023)

Quote:
And Effy had walked right into the center of it, into this sinking house at the edge of the world.... When Effy was able to move her numb legs again, she ran down the stairs and hurled herself out the door, into the blackness of the night, heart pounding like church bells. She was not afraid of the ghost. But she was horribly, wretchedly afraid of whatever had killed the woman it had once been.

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