![]() Everyday objects outside and inside the home begin to emanate something strange. The “haunted house" aspect is an inference we can make, and so we’re immediately primed to expect strange things to happen. “As a matter of fact,” the real estate agent snapped, “it is.” ![]() It starts off with the classic horror movie trope of a family buying a new house. A lot of reviewers have thrown the term “magical realism” around when discussing the story, but for me personally, I think "Stone Animals" is a foray into horror. It then free falls, veering sinisterly into the dark and fantastical. ![]() Link’s “Stone Animals” is a brilliant short story that starts off in a very normal, contemporary fiction kind of way, filled with psychological realism. Hooray for serendipitous wandering through the Web, because it led me to this post on Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading that finally brought me around to Link again. Kelly Link is a writer I kept hearing about for her brilliant genre-hopping, though she’s someone I had never actually read. ![]()
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