Clarice Lispector’s highly original oeuvre embraces madness and passion in equal measure. In The Smallest Woman in The World (1960), the African pygmy Little Flower inspires a variety of unhealthy emotions, while the subject of A Chicken (1964) appears to be deeply loved by a family – until it is casually killed and eaten.
If you want something unsettling that has nothing to do with a pandemic
Shirley Jackson’s tales effortlessly combine the chilling with the mundane. The Lottery (1948), her sinister account of an annual ritual in an apparently idyllic, small US town, is considered one of the most iconic and terrifying short stories of the 20th Century.
Although best known for his children’s books, Roald Dahl also wrote a series of wittily macabre stories. Anyone in possession of an intriguing tattoo will undoubtedly want to keep it away from admiring eyes once they have read Skin.
But if it’s ghost stories you want, nothing beats MR James. Casting the Runes (1911), which sees a British Museum researcher cursed after reviewing a book by an occultist, is guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine.
If you really want to tackle the classics but can’t cope with a doorstop novel
Marcel Proust explored many of the themes that would appear in Remembrance of Things Past in his short story collection Pleasures and Days (1896). The all-encompassing passion in The End of Jealousy is a precursor of Charles Swann’s obsession with the courtesan Odette and the narrator’s with Albertine.
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