A collection of interlinked short stories sees the Booker-shortlisted novelist fully embrace the horror genre
The shortlisting of Everything Under for the 2018 Booker Prize was newsworthy for making Daisy Johnson the youngest ever writer to be nominated in the history of the prize. But what seems more remarkable was the committee’s willingness to recognise a novel that took its cue from horror and fairy tale rather than social realism.
The number 63 seems to turn their thoughts to violence and shattered bodies, as when the narrator of “The Witch” sees in her mind’s eye “63 jars smashed to the floor and my husband’s mother’s wrists torn as if bitten by glass”. To anyone with even minimal exposure to contemporary horror, this will feel familiar. As will the general content — the drowned witch, the possessed child, the appearance of a new door in a haunted building . . . these are stock items in the genre’s store cupboard.
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