Every monster has a story : Catriona Ward on her chilling gothic novel that everyone is talking about Justine Jordan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
When Catriona Ward was about 13, she’d wake up each night with a hand in the small of her back, pushing her out of bed. “It was absolutely terrifying. I could feel that there was someone in the room.” Had Google been around in the early 1990s, she might have found out sooner about hypnagogic hallucinations, intensely real sensations on the border between wakefulness and sleep. “But it doesn’t matter whether it’s real or not; the fear is real. And there’s nothing else quite like it, that fear in the dark.”
Every monster has a story : Catriona Ward on her chilling gothic novel that everyone is talking about
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