This is a creepy, meticulously-crafted tragedy and frankly, one of the most beautifully written haunted stories I've ever read. You feel like you just might be able to notice what's wrong, or where the wrongness is springing from, before anybody else. Atmosphere seeps from every page, and you really feel like you too are exploring this house, like this house is closing around you, too.
Of course, a novella is just words but Khaw's command of language in service of an image - their brilliance when it comes to wedding image with emotion - is sheer perfection here, with gorgeous turns of phrase that deepen our understanding of the characters and their responses to one another. Nothing But Blackened Teeth is visually stunning. So when our five arrive for the wedding, emotions run high. Every year afterwards, more girls were buried in the walls, until the manor fell to ruin. Turns out, the deal for this particular creepy abandoned Japanese manor is that once upon a time a bridegroom never made it to his wedding, so the bride ordered her wedding guests to bury her alive so she could wait for him. Finally, there's Lin, also genre savvy, a wise-cracker with his life together who's there mostly "for Cat."Īuthor Interviews Questions For Zen Cho, Author Of 'Black Water Sister' She is often the voice of reason and occupies the role of prophet, seeming a little more sensitive to the supernatural and very genre savvy.
Cat, our narrator and Faiz's best friend (we are told), is still fresh from a hospital stay (depression), and the nexus for a lot of strong and complex emotions. Phillip, charming do-gooder rich boy, uses his money to facilitate one last legend trip to Japan. Nadia and Faiz are tying the knot, and Nadia's always wanted to get married in a haunted house. They do go to the wedding, although the five protagonists used to ghost-hunt and legend trip (that's when you visit the site of some supernatural or tragic event) together, so the haunting is invited, too. Their past history seethes on or just under the surface scratch any of them, and complicated hurts and loyalties spill out like viscera. The characters in Cassandra Khaw's creepy, gorgeous novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth leave well-lit places and easy access to help.
Dysfunctional relationships from the past, expunged or resolved? Very good! Wedding invitations that involve ghost hunting in an abandoned Japanese manor? Ignore, however tempting.
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