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← Back to all issuesGranta 117: Horror
Autumn 2011
Horror is everywhere – in cinema, in fiction, in real life. In this issue Paul Auster writes about the death of his mother, Will Self on his own rare blood-disease, and Mark Doty on desire, addiction and literature. We have fiction from Stephen King, Sarah Hall and Joy Williams, reportage from Peru and Sudan, and a themed costume fightclub in Los Angeles. As Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, ‘where there is no imagination there is no horror’.
From this Issue
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False Blood
Will Self
‘The only real universals are that we all live – and, of course, we all must die.’
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Your Birthday Has Come and Gone
Paul Auster
‘For the first time in all the years you had known her, she sounded deranged.’
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The Mission
Tom Bamforth
‘It is strange, the rituals we find ourselves carrying out before the unknown.’
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A Garden of Illuminating Existence
Kanitta Meechubot
‘Witnessing her death, I understand the meaning of love.’
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The Ground Floor
Daniel Alarcón
‘I met Darin Rossi standing in a thick, gooey pool of fake blood, on an early-December night in Los Angeles.’
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Insatiable
Mark Doty
‘Behind every man I want to kiss lies that original desire, which it is my nature and my fate to displace.’
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Diem Perdidi
Julie Otsuka
‘When you ask her your name, she does not remember what it is.’
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Fabric
Richard Meier
‘At midnight on our third and final date / I stepped inside her Edwardian conversion / to find a stripped-pine, bookless space.’
