I’m a sucker for smart horror novels, in the same way that I’m a sucker for smart horror movies. They’re my popcorn, and I’ve heard this is a great one. The quiet of the nighttime desert around my yurt will turn any atmospheric spookiness up to 11.
"The Job of the Wasp is a chilling tale, underscoring the narrator’s statement that “civilized boys are barbaric.” It’s last horrifying sentence will long linger in the reader’s mind with the wishful addendum that he knew what came after."
Throughout the book, Winnette maintains a perfectly gothic atmosphere that is simply gorgeous. At times, I actually felt the proverbial “chills down my spine” and had to put the book down, walk away and shake off that creepy old feeling.
