Found: Short story collection: man gives house tour after murdering his parents
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1glowsilver
This was a fiction book by a male, Scottish author. I believe it had a white cover. The stories were not horror but they were deliberately strange/unsettling. I think it was from the 1990s-2000s.
The only story I remember in any detail, was about a man who has murdered his parents and is now living in their house while their bodies rot in the attic. An old friend from school visits unexpectedly with his wife Donna, who was also at school with them and the narrator is in love with her. He refers to her throughout the story as "the lovely Donna", never just her name. He gives them a tour of the house and is watching to see if they suspect anything is wrong. It is hinted he will kill his old friend and kidnap Donna, but she becomes suspicious and convinces her husband that they should leave. Now the protagonist is all alone in the house and still has the problem of dealing with the bodies.
It was a first person narration with a very ... apathetic? tone in which the narrator has absolutely no consideration for anyone else and doesn't consider he has done anything wrong.
The only other story I vaguely remember from the book focused on a teenage boy at school watching the girl he has a crush on.
The only story I remember in any detail, was about a man who has murdered his parents and is now living in their house while their bodies rot in the attic. An old friend from school visits unexpectedly with his wife Donna, who was also at school with them and the narrator is in love with her. He refers to her throughout the story as "the lovely Donna", never just her name. He gives them a tour of the house and is watching to see if they suspect anything is wrong. It is hinted he will kill his old friend and kidnap Donna, but she becomes suspicious and convinces her husband that they should leave. Now the protagonist is all alone in the house and still has the problem of dealing with the bodies.
It was a first person narration with a very ... apathetic? tone in which the narrator has absolutely no consideration for anyone else and doesn't consider he has done anything wrong.
The only other story I vaguely remember from the book focused on a teenage boy at school watching the girl he has a crush on.
2MissSquish
No More Angels by Ron Butlin?
"A train ticket seller livens up his day by telling Lockerbie victims' relatives that his surname is Lockerbie. A widower struggles to keep his family on the tracks after the death of his young wife, becoming obsessive about order and routine to the point of madness. A schoolboy counts down the days, hours and minutes to a friend's party, all too conscious of the realities of the popularity game. A house tour is conducted with the unspoken stench of parenticide hanging in the air."
"A train ticket seller livens up his day by telling Lockerbie victims' relatives that his surname is Lockerbie. A widower struggles to keep his family on the tracks after the death of his young wife, becoming obsessive about order and routine to the point of madness. A schoolboy counts down the days, hours and minutes to a friend's party, all too conscious of the realities of the popularity game. A house tour is conducted with the unspoken stench of parenticide hanging in the air."
