The stories anatomise how technology and, particularly, social media distort its characters’ view of themselves, but the collection also emphasises their culpability in this degradation.
“I know that anything I’ve lost,” one character suggests, “has been given away freely.”
This is a spellbinding book by a skilled writer. The result is a read that’ll have you in its thrall from start to finish. The Bewitching is a resounding affirmation of Moreno-Garcia’s talents as a horror writer and offers an inventive merging of witch lore from two different North American traditions.
Here is the past, drawn without sentiment, but also without judgment, something of an achievement in our violently sententious times. Warm and inspiriting as well as delicately painful, it surely heralds the arrival of a big new talent in the world of the cartoon.