Mrs Caliban
Rachel Ingalls
Literary Fiction / Fantasy
Mrs Caliban
by Rachel Ingalls
—· 128 p· 1982
20th Century ClassicCult Favouritehauntingdarkmysterious
Overview
About
In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates's domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy…
Pages
128
Gambit
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Surreal Allegory9
Emotional depth8
Domestic Unease8
Prose7
Narration7
Pacing7
Plot twists6
Worldbuilding5
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