![]() ![]() “Scariest book I’ve ever read” sets up quite a challenge, and the recent benchmark for me (as mentioned a few days back) is Pine by Francine Toon, which grabbed me – in one scene in particular – and made horripilation happen all over my body. ![]() You can look up Hesteyri and see photos of the scattered houses, the abandoned mackerel processing plant (and former whaling station), and the old Doctor’s House, which acts as a guest house and café in the short summer season, when people visit the area for hiking holidays and murder ghosts. Whereas Dark Matter was set in a fictive location on Spitsbergen, I Remember You is set in the abandoned village of Hesteyri, and it’s nearest inhabited settlement, Ísafjörður, both in the far northwest of Iceland. There’s a film of it, too, which is on Amazon Prime, I think. I’d never heard of this Icelandic novel, translated into English by Philip Roughton, but having just been in Norway for a gothic ghostier, I was in the mood to give this a try. Got this because it was recommended by my sister, who said it was the scariest book she’d ever read. ![]()
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