The Demon Lover

The Demon Lover - Elizabeth Bowen

10.07.07


In a bombed out English city (London?), some wimman walks around in her bombed out house, packing some stuff. She finds a letter concerning the fulfillment of a past lover's "promise", and amazingly, she cannot recall what the promise is; she can't even recall his face.

She goes on with her business with great paranoia, and she leaves her house. She gets a cab, but when she sees the driver, she screaaaaaaaaaaams. The cab then drives of. She is still screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaming.

So yeah, it is a bit of a horror-ish story, and in this sense, it is an effective piece of work. It's a classic, which means that it does not rely on violence to scare people, unlike contemporary stories. It uses the fear of the unknown effectively. I mean, she can't even remember the guy's face, and we have no idea as to why she screamed in the cab. Actually, we've no idea about a whole lot of things!

Scary.

Scary is good.