![]() ![]() I just had to find out why Elsie shrank in terror from dead trees.Īnd, oh, did I find out. Of course, I was immediately hooked by the weirdness of it all. Who’s scared of wood? I mean, this woman looks suspiciously at a pencil, for crying out loud. You learn early on that main character Elsie is afraid of the wooden desk in her room. And, this is exactly what author Laura Purcell does with The Silent Companions. What I really love is when someone creates a sense of deep, penetrating fear around something you normally wouldn’t look twice at. Myths, legends, and classic scary stories have pretty much run these monsters into the ground. – they’re all creatures I’d prefer never to meet (especially zombies), but I don’t need much of a nudge to be creeped out by them. Vampires, zombies, ghosts, werewolves, etc. ![]() ![]() In my opinion, it’s not very hard to make scary things scary. However, calling this a “bewitched wooden figurine story” just doesn’t carry quite the same weight. The things that go bump in the night are far less sinister at first glance, which makes their effect upon the story that much creepier. The house in which the main characters live is most decidedly haunted, but not by ghosts, per se. The Silent Companions is a damn good ghost story. ![]()
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