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 9-10 of T. Kingfisher’s
The Hollow Places, first published in 2020. Spoilers ahead but we strongly recommend reading along!
“…for all I know, sometimes I do see ghosts, and they’re just blurry like everybody else.”
Kara and Simon have ventured deeper into the Bunker of Ominous Graffiti. A hallway leads them into a long room divided into a makeshift kitchen, bunkroom and latrine, done up in the highest military style. Of five cots, two are neatly made up, two rumpled. Lockers surprisingly un-rusted stand at the foot of each cot. On a bolt over the head of an unmade bed hangs a rosary. As Simon quips, no matter where you go, the Jesuits got there first.