Monster Blood: A Short Story - opinion
During the process of packing and clearing her room, she came across some random drawings from 5 years old Charlotte. Great memories starting to flow to her mind as that initiated her career in art. She began to contemplate how much she improved all these years. Although the drawing are simple and childish, she is still able to recognize and recall what she was expressing. Charlotte kissed her the last goodbye before leaving the house. Charlotte loves everything about the college, except her roommate Sophia. A week after Charlotte met Sophia, she received a list of the rules and demands from Sophia. Despite her many attempts to compromise, Sophia would remain stubborn. One day Charlotte came back to her dorm earlier than Sophia, but found the room to not be the same way as she left. Before she can even reach the closet, a small black claw opened the door. Monster Blood: A Short StoryAbout this title 'I think you know who killed your stepfather', said Wexford, and so begins this scintillating collection of long and short stories by the world's best living crime writer, Ruth Rendell.
It is a case which reminds the Chief Inspector that there is only a thin line dividing the policeman from the criminal. The criminal impulse may be present source the most routine or intimate situation. The book ends with The Strawberry Tree, a disturbingly evocative novella-length tale of lost innocence, set on the island of Majorca.
It is a triumphant conclusion to a collection of horror stories that linger in Moonster mind.
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Review: "The words dropped, very precisely, like pebbles into a pool. They spread ripples of menace and foreboding.
Ruth Rendell hasd the extraordinary faculty of summing up life in a single phraseor sentence. A mesmeric collection" Daily Telegraph "Disturbing, atmospheric, inventive and surprising.]
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