Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches.
This week, we cover Chapters 19-20 of T. Kingfisher’s
The Hollow Places, first published in 2020. Spoilers ahead!
the light makes things alive
Kara’s first thought after recognizing the corpse-otter carving as the link between Wonder Museum and Willow-world is: How
dare it come here—the Museum is
home. The Museum has always been her place of refuge, “the safe place where Uncle Earl kept a little corner of the world weird and ridiculous and kind.” Her next thought is that while she was trying to escape