Let the Right One In

Craig, you are reading.

Let the right one in.

Yeah,

I am.

It forces a complete reevaluation of the spaces we assume are safe, tightly knit, and protective.

Let's examine number four on the ranking, Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, published in 2004.

A total classic.

We find ourselves in 1981 in a place called Blackeberg.

You can't just categorize her as generalized folklore, burn some sage, and walk away.

No, she is a very real bill coming due.

It feels like both of these books, Let the Right One In and The Only Good Indians, take places that are supposed to be safe or tightly knit, a quiet Swedish suburb, a close community on a reservation, and expose the rot underneath.

The vampire in Sweden and the elk spirit on the reservation aren't invaders.

Next week, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones.

Then Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki, and then Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Ooh.

Some spooky books coming up.