Genesee Rickel’s Reviews > The Eerie Book > Status Update

“But one thing that never seems to change about humans is that desire to slip out of the light and into the shadows; to lift up the rock; to stare at the ambulance lights. In another hundred years we will crave stories of new horrors— or perhaps these same old classic ones. As a final story in this book says: “the secret passages still survive.”” (xiii)

“We loved tales of blood and death a century ago when this book was first published; we loved them for centuries before that. I expect we will love them for centuries still to come. We may think we’re different now. We have different beliefs; we tell different stories. We are haunted by different fears.” (xiii)

“William Brown (credited as W.B.) Macdougall’s style has strong echoes of Aubrey Beardsley; the images are symbolic and somber.” (xii)

“The interest in this particular book, for me, is the curation: the way that the stories are put in conversation with one another. I’ve read ghost stories and I’ve read fairy tales, but there’s something interesting about making them stand beside one another, in making them look one another in the eye and try to find a common language.” (x)

“The Eerie Book is a collection of supernatural stories ranging from gory folk and fairy tales to Gothic short stories, to excerpts of classic novels.” (viii)