Mary: An Awakening of Terror

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Also, he clearly has a lot of love for “Carrie”, as in his author’s note he explains that Mary is a reimagining of a woman like Carrie who does make it past the night of Prom, and what that would look like.

Honestly though look at the world what's the difference because this stuff and worse happens every day to literal children.This was gory and horrifying and had some images/scenes that will surely stick with me for a very long time. If you look for my bookshelf label "MARY Influences," you can see a whole motley batch o' books that helped inspire MARY. The Author's Note at the beginning and the Afterword at the end pretty much say everything I was trying to *do* with this book--and the former also offers some spoiler-free content warnings if you'd like them. I also included in the Acknowledgements page a list of the books that were inspirational to me when writing MARY. Instead, visions of terrifying, mutilated specters overwhelm her with increasing regularity and she begins auto-writing strange thoughts and phrases.

So I ran to NetGalley and grabbed the titles I wanted that way, which works out just as well (and far more compact in terms of storage, really). The ominous cover only alludes to what may be one of the most bizarre and creepy reads I’ve read this year. This book also dives into social topics that aren’t really discussed to much—perimenopause and the treatment of women once they reach a certain age.Mary starts to see entities around her—mutilated and graphic, these entities are trying to speak to her. I love the lady earlier saying "I didn't know we were doing children now" like wow nothing is too much for these people. A story of this kind doesn't really need to be more than 400 pages and while I was never really bored I still felt like this could have been trimmed down quite a bit without losing it's magic.