![]() The format makes sense and provides opportunities for interesting passages of time and an interplay between “present” moments and Natalie’s narrative asides. But other, darker things, may find her as well in Darker Still (2011) by Leanna Renee Hieber.ĭarker Still is the first in Hieber’s Darker Still trilogy, followed by The Twisted Tragedy of Miss Natalie Stewart and The Double Life of Incorporate Things which is currently being presented in serialized form on Hieber’s blog (and will culminate with the publication of the complete novel).įor obvious reasons, Darker Still is an epistolary novel–written as Natalie’s diary. In this dangerous word Natalie may love and even her voice. Soon she is drawn into the uneasy world of magic and possession where paintings can act as traps and a body can be stolen with the right words. Stranger still, when Natalie answers the call of the portrait she finds much more than a painting. ![]() Then there are the things that defy all description like the portrait of Lord Denbury–a painting that seems to call to her, changing as if Lord Denbury himself were beckoning Natalie. Some are so terrifying that they took Natalie’s voice, leaving her Mute from a young age. ![]() ![]() Some are stranger like the Whisper that sometimes tugs at the edge of her hearing. Some are tame like the art objects her father collects for the new Metropolitan Museum. Oddities have always clung to Natalie Stewart. ![]()
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