5/19/2023 0 Comments Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe![]() ![]() Like James, Aycliffe is a master of imbuing small details with ominous significance – Charles refuses to touch the length of blue ribbon lying outside his dead daughter’s bedroom door because "It might still have been warm" – but what makes the darkness of Naomi’s Room particularly effective is that the creepy antiquarian horror of James is juxtaposed with a more visceral form of terror. Disquiet mounts with every teasing hint of the horror to come, and yet this is not a flimsy potboiler but a story driven by its characters - characters you come to care about as they hurtle quietly into the darkness. ![]() Like all of Aycliffe’s subsequent chillers, Naomi’s Room has the power to nail you to your chair, compelling you to devour the book in one sitting. ![]()
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