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Flowers of the Abyss
FLOWERS OF THE ABYSS
"Everything held for a moment to allow the wandering music from the box to pass on toward some sublimely terrible destination. I tried to follow it -- through the yellowish haze of the room and deep into the darkness that pressed against the walls,..." Arguably, this story is a satire on the popular horror books of VC Andrews in the 1980s and 1990s, that started with FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC -- 'flowers' that seem, by dint of its sequels' titles, to have transposed themselves into the garden? On another level, it is a serious and effective deployment of the Ligottian "madness of things" theme (without recourse to the Ligottian 'fabulous hoax'), a madness that perhaps soon was to become the New Nonsense, with the above 'yellowish haze' seeping into the later Ligottian works of horror that depicted Corporate employment amid such madness and desolation. Meanwhile, I personally loved the music box in this story. "With the darkness I saw the darkness." (An extract from my on-going review of the Penguin Classics collection.) | |||||||||||
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