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'The Beast You Are' by Paul Tremblay is a collection of short stories that delve into themes of memory, identity, mortality, and existential horror. Tremblay's writing style varies across the stories, from experimental and thought-provoking to creepy and heartbreaking. The book includes a novella that tells a unique story of animals as the residents of a town, reminiscent of 'Watership Down' and 'Beowulf', showcasing the darker side of animals in a poetic and epic manner.
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The collection includes themes of existential dread, grief, mortality, and dark psychological elements.
From The Publisher:
A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
In "The Dead Thing," a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents' substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with "the dead thing" inside. He won't show it to her and he won't let the box out of his sight. In "The Last Conversation," a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking.
The title novella, "The Beast You Are," is a mini epic in which the destinies and secrets of a village, a dog, and a cat are intertwined with a giant monster that returns to wreak havoc every thirty years.
A masterpiece of literary horror and psychological suspense, The Beast You Are is a fearlessly imagined collection from one of the most electrifying and innovative writers working today.
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This felt slightly disjointed for Tremlbay's usual work. I remember feeling so much more immersed in his earlier works, this just felt a little all over the place. Granted, this was a short story collection so it was obviously a different format, but it really didn't stick with me, or immerse me in the way his earlier work has. May try to read again at a later date.
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