![]() ![]() ![]() In this new group of eight stories, Russell once again peers through her color-it-weird kaleidoscope to report on characters trapped in upside-down, looking-glass worlds. In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel, “Swamplandia!” a dilapidated theme park on an island off the Florida coast yielded a Southern gothic tragicomedy about a family of alligator wrestlers and their call-and-response with the spirit realm. A home for wayward girls became a finishing school for the daughters of werewolves in her debut short-story collection, “St. But she shares in the show’s legacy, its groundbreaking combination of genres - sci fi, fantasy, horror, fiction and suspense - that portrayed ordinary people crossing a threshold into the extraordinary.Ī sixth sense seems to steer Russell, who has built a literary reputation by locating the uncanny in the most improbable places. Sound familiar? At 31, Russell wasn’t even born when Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” transfixed millions of Americans every Friday night from 1959-1964. ![]()
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