'Clairvoyance' are both impressively bloody and beautifully chilling (though the latter is a bit unfortunately exoticising; Broster wouldn't perhaps have treated an ancient French sword the same way)
I would love to know the original publication date of "Clairvoyance," because there's an element in it that reminds me of Kipling's "The House Surgeon" (1909): the technical accuracy of "no murder or suicide took place in that room," which nonetheless allows for quite a lot of horror in the vicinity. I agree the Orientalism could have been . . . less Orientalist.
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Date: Jul. 31st, 2021 09:52 am (UTC)I would love to know the original publication date of "Clairvoyance," because there's an element in it that reminds me of Kipling's "The House Surgeon" (1909): the technical accuracy of "no murder or suicide took place in that room," which nonetheless allows for quite a lot of horror in the vicinity. I agree the Orientalism could have been . . . less Orientalist.