The Thing With Feathers

Emily Dickinson composed her poem “#254” at some point in the mid-1880s. It began:

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.

Norman Prentiss has written “The Thing With Feathers” inspired in part by the Dickinson poem, but also by the story of two people: a young man possessing a terrible desire, and a young woman equally obsessed with a terrible fear.

“The Thing With Feathers” is a perfect example of the type of horror fiction that has won Prentiss the prestigious Bram Stoker Award two times so far: quiet, observant, written in elegant prose … ultimately, unerringly devastating… and yet…

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