A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham, 2017
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
A doctor meets a patient whose emotional scars are far deeper, and more dangerous, than the visible ones.
Feels like dread, unease and passion. About identity, memory and morality.
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To confront true darkness is to risk becoming part of what you fear.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that, in the process, he does not become a monster. If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Stacy Willingham.Willingham gained mainstream attention for her first novel, The Silent Patient, which explores intense psychological tension within a medical framework.
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- What is A Flicker in the Dark like?
- Feels like dread, unease and passion. About identity, memory and morality.
- What should I read after A Flicker in the Dark?
- If you liked A Flicker in the Dark, try Before I Go to Sleep (S.J. Watson), In a Dark, Dark Wood (Ruth Ware) and Home Before Dark (Riley Sager).
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The particular dread of a long life that leaves nothing behind.
I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
Before I Go to Sleep · S.J. Watson
When the light feels like a trap, the darkness is watching.
The night was drawing in, and the house felt more and more like a glass cage, blasting its light blindly out into the dusk, like a lantern in the dark. I imagined a thousand moths circling and shivering, drawn inexorably to its glow, only to perish against the cold inhospitable glass.
In a Dark, Dark Wood · Ruth Ware
When a lie becomes a narrative, dismantling it requires a courage that defies history.
Every house has a story. Ours is a ghost story. It’s also a lie. And now that yet another person has died within these walls, it’s finally time to tell the truth.
Home Before Dark · Riley Sager
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