Book Review: Cráite by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin
“Wives swell with babies. Unwed girls and women house only demons.” 📚 Cráite by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin is a superb collection of grisly short stories infused with horror, menace, death, and dark history. Shocking and chilling, disquieting and haunting, eerie and horrifying, it’s an unputdownable, gothic-steeped read that, though small in size (literally: I love Filthy Loot ’s trademark petite tomes!), packs a wallop, topped off with gorgeous, marvelously macabre cover art. Easily an all-time favorite for this reader and, to give you an idea of how significant this is, I often struggle with short stories and don’t read many as a result, but I tore through this in one sitting and likely would have turned feral had I been disturbed! Favorites: “Phytophthora” “Geisterbahnhof” “Teufelsberg” “You Have to Invite It In” 🖤Amanda
