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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Thirteen-year-old Tyler and sixteen-year-old Shannon live alone in their late Grandmother’s house. (Grandmother is buried in the back yard.) Shannon gets an obsessive crush on a guy (Walker Ransom) and begins to stalk him and do peculiar things. Her brother doesn’t approve… This short story started out okay but it got too strange, weird, and confusing. By the end, I didn’t know what the heck was going on. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook edition (June 27, 2019)
I've read some good reviews recently about the Disorder series and realized that I hadn't finished reading all 6 stories myself, although there had been a few good ones and only one dud. So I circled back to catch The Beckoning Fair One. This was quite a good creepy story which builds a considerable amount of tension throughout as we read one young teenage boy's observations about the increasingly erratic behaviour of his older teenage sister.
You begin to anticipate that some sort of witchcraft or voodoo process is underway, but the final reveal is more alien than that. The finale is vague though and you don't completely understand what happens, so that kept it out of 5 territory for me. But the suspense buildup otherwise was well done.
The Beckoning Fair One is the 5th of 6 short stories/novellas in the Amazon Original Disorder Series. “Stories that get inside your head. From small-town witch hunts to mass incarceration to exploitations of the flesh, this chilling collection of twisted short stories imagines the horrors of a modern world not unlike our own.”
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This short story title was quite unique and its reference to a painting was intriguing:
After some googling, it seems that no such painting or artist exist. There is however another short story titled The Beckoning Fair One (1911) by Oliver Onions (1873-1961). That is a ghost story which may have provided some inspiration for Dan Chaon.
The cover for one edition of the 1911 ghost story does feature a painting of a possible "beckoning fair one."
See cover image at https://ia801401.us.archive.org/25/items/beckoningfairone_2211_librivox/beckonin... ( )