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J.K. Franko
“I’ve always found it curious how a coffin, if placed upright, resembles a doorway.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In
tags: dark-symbolism, existential-dread, gothic-atmosphere, late-night-reading, mortality, psychological-horror, psychological-thriller, the-uncanny, thriller, thriller-readers
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J.K. Franko
“Nicholas said coffins resemble doorways. Books do too.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In
tags: books-about-books, dark-symbolism, gothic-atmosphere, horror-readers, late-night-reading, metafiction, psychological-thriller, the-uncanny, thriller, thrillers-mystery
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“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts, parasitizes the allegedly non-literary. It makes 'genre' blink.”
― Nicholas Royle
tags: genre, the-uncanny
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