A TV show that exemplifies this is Locke and Key, based on Joe Hill’s series of graphic novels, where the Locke family control a group of magical keys in their manor house, some of which open their own heads, so they can wander around their brains and hold up jars of memories, often with disastrous consequences. It’s an ethereal worldbuilding, a little like Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, making tiny universes in small spaces so we can observe them. One room is filled with bees, another is filled only with the sound of bees. You walk into it thinking you will die or learn something.” In Matt Bell’s novel The House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, a grieving woman creates underground rooms so that she can take things out of her head and trap them there. It’s essentially when authors use physical spaces to embody things we wouldn’t usually see.įor example, Lauren Eggert-Crowe wrote a poetry pamphlet called The Exhibit where the reader is invited to walk through a series of rooms that speak only to them: “The exhibit is a lightning storm. It’s a rather bizarre device, so I don’t come across it all too often, but when I do, I’m thrilled. An oddly specific thing that I’m drawn to in books is the personification of rooms.
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