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DΞ††LΣΞT
93 pages, Paperback
Published February 24, 2025
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March 19, 2025
I found this book recommended as a comment on the r/horrorlit subreddit, in a thread about non-gory spooky books.
I’m still processing this book a few days later. Staring at the title: DΞ††LΣΞT, I still don’t know what to call it. Dettleet? Delete? I’m unsure. All of the chapters/stories are titled in a similar style using collections of obscure letters. Reading them in context, you can make out what most entries are meant to be called.
The writing is fantastic. There are so many great quotes that are packed with imagery. (I will update my review to include a few highlights when I am back near my copy of the book, I’ll update a bunch of this.)
The story where everyone is slowly forgetting everything was a favourite. There is a line about forgetting, how it’s not terrible or painful, but like writing in the sand being washed away slowly by waves. The final story, the title was something like “I held the sun in my hands and it was soft” is a very beautiful experience, especially compared to some of the stories and imagery compared to the rest of the book.
It’s definitely about addiction, recovery, relapse, and psychosis. But it’s much more than that.
It humanizes the inhuman, and inhumanizes the human. Some of the stories could be seen as psychosis, or they could be interpreted as something more. There were certain parts that reminded me of my own psychosis experience, and things said to me by others with their psychosis.
I see that Vossk has a collection called Fictions, which I will probably also read. And I would probably read anything else Vossk has to write.
I’m still processing this book a few days later. Staring at the title: DΞ††LΣΞT, I still don’t know what to call it. Dettleet? Delete? I’m unsure. All of the chapters/stories are titled in a similar style using collections of obscure letters. Reading them in context, you can make out what most entries are meant to be called.
The writing is fantastic. There are so many great quotes that are packed with imagery. (I will update my review to include a few highlights when I am back near my copy of the book, I’ll update a bunch of this.)
The story where everyone is slowly forgetting everything was a favourite. There is a line about forgetting, how it’s not terrible or painful, but like writing in the sand being washed away slowly by waves. The final story, the title was something like “I held the sun in my hands and it was soft” is a very beautiful experience, especially compared to some of the stories and imagery compared to the rest of the book.
It’s definitely about addiction, recovery, relapse, and psychosis. But it’s much more than that.
It humanizes the inhuman, and inhumanizes the human. Some of the stories could be seen as psychosis, or they could be interpreted as something more. There were certain parts that reminded me of my own psychosis experience, and things said to me by others with their psychosis.
I see that Vossk has a collection called Fictions, which I will probably also read. And I would probably read anything else Vossk has to write.
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