eBook, 58 pages
English language
Published by Amazon Original Stories.
A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a nightmarish short story about fatherhood dreams by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.
Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.
Joe Hill’s The Pram is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.
As in some of his other short stories (from Strange Weather), Joe Hill's writing always seem to suck me in from the first page. The Pram is an interesting take on loss, anger and resentment, and whilst I really enjoyed it, as often happens with short stories I wish he went a bit deeper into explaining The Covenant and the woods surrounding the farmhouse.
