The Patricia Highsmith Recommendation Engine.
The Patricia Highsmith Recommendation Engine.
The Black House eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white picket fences, and the local pubs, each providing the backbone for Highsmith’s chilling portraits.
ABOUT THE BLACK HOUSE (1981)
Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith’s life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white picket fences, and the local pubs, each providing the backbone for her chilling portraits. Seemingly small indiscretions and infidelities—along with love affairs and murder—consume the characters that commit them. Cycles of destructive jealousy overwhelm the cheating protagonists of “Blow It” and “When in Rome,” and the title story explores small-town male camaraderie and the destructive secret it masks. This enthralling collection of eleven stories presents Highsmith at her finest: melancholy, suspenseful, and sizzling with a powerful awareness of human emotion.
CONTENTS
Something the Cat Dragged In
Not One of Us
The Terrors of Basket-Weaving
Under a Dark Angel’s Eye
I Despise Your Life
The Dream of the Emma C
Old Folks at Home
When in Rome
Blow It
The Kite
The Black House
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