Eleven unsettling short stories probing obsession, foreboding, and the dark corners of the human psyche through bizarre compulsions and creeping dread.
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Eleven unsettling short stories probing obsession, foreboding, and the dark corners of the human psyche through bizarre compulsions and creeping dread.
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The stories in Eleven are small masterpieces of Patricia Highsmith’s particular art—that of obsession and foreboding, of probing the dark corners of the human psyche. From the eerily outlandish (a man suffocated by countless snails) to the irrational and brutal (a child’s revenge on his mother for cooking his pet turtle), Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange, unspoken urges, and their cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of her novels. [publisher ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Overt violence in one story; animal cruelty and body horror with snails
Profanity
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No profanity depicted
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ characters or themes
Religious content
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No religious themes present
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft elements
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonological content
Political content
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No political or ideological messaging
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Animal abuse and child revenge violence in one story; themes of cruelty
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