A Halloween Gift from NYRB Classics and Edward Gorey
Yes, we’re reblogging ourselves! Hey—our offices are closed until future notice because of Storm Sandy! At least we’re still thinking of all of you who live places where Halloween hasn’t been rescheduled.
A few years ago we gave this story away as a Halloween gift to our readers. Here’s what we said:
A gift from us this week before Halloween, the story that Olivia Laing recently called, “Scariest story ever, so horrifying that to this day I can’t keep it in my house” and puts on par with stories by Bram Stoker and Stephen King. And perhaps more importantly, Edward Gorey selected it for his anthology, The Haunted Looking Glass.
Download the pdf here.
