A review by thecommonswings
The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein, Jason Eckhardt

5.0

Is it better than the Ceremonies? Possibly, and certainly the final line uttered by the whatever it is feels far creepier than the ending of the novel (not taking into account the postscript), but they have very different ways of invoking fear. The Ceremonies feels far more concerned with pacing and slowly putting together the awfulness of the narrative; Poroth Farm feels like a nightmarish glimmer into a darker design. Both are brilliantly written, even if whole chunks of the short story end up in the novel. I first read this on a tiny Norwegian island and the dread I had in a landscape different but somehow similar cannot be matched and I was particularly pleased that lingered on today’s reading too