We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson 1962
- What it is
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A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · pitch-black comedy
- Genre
- Classics Horror Mystery
- Feels
- Morally grey Unsettling Wry Dark Tense
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