When the powerful forces controlling the publishing industry maintain they’re looking for novels and memoirs between 60,000 and 80,000 words, it’s a natural outcome that a huge percentage of books are 250–300 pages long. In a better world, they would probably be shorter. *Down Below* by the late surrealist artist Leonora Carrington bucks that trend with a spare and efficient central text less than 70 pages long.

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To get our comrades into spooky season, members of the New Kentucky editorial collective here present brief reviews of three haunting texts.

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It should have been clear something bad was gonna happen: something surging out of the ancient repository where the facts from the Bible were kept.

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