Mrs Caliban and other stories

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Eerie hybrids of Richard Yates-esque domestic realism, B-movie horror, and surrealist fairytale, her stories and novellas subtly infuse quotidian life with a kind of hallucinatory menace, a pervasive sense of impending doom. To allow yourself to be led by her narration is to feel familiar spaces shimmer and degrade. Caliban — periodically rediscovered and acclaimed in the 36 years since its initial publication—has found it to be utterly transfixing.

The story of a lonely, grieving suburban housewife and her passionate affair with a humanoid sea creature who has escaped from a government lab, Mrs. Caliban is an intoxicating mix of sensuality, sorrow, and supernatural horror, and a damn-near perfect novella. I corresponded with Ingalls last month about myths and fairytales, Hollywood adaptations, and the ways we learn to fictionalize. What is it about the long short story and novella forms that so appeal to you as a storyteller?

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The novella or long short story has always appealed to me. Much of that appeal probably has to do with early reading in school and then the fact that certain American writers were working at forms set by their European counterparts the great Victorian and Edwardian form in French, English, German, Russian, Danish and American prose literature from the mid s to the end of the s. I was reading them all pretty much at the same time.

I think the appeal was there from the beginning of my own reading outside school. Can you talk a little about how a love of myths and fairytales has influenced your writing?

First of all, the story—like the poem or song—is a favorite form in all cultures. I expect that the Gothic element comes from a combination of early reading and an equally early exposure to Hollywood horror films The Creature from the Black Lagoon etc. All of the realist tragedy, fleeting supernatural joy, and, ultimately, sheer horror visited upon Dorothy is described in such a tranquil way that the book becomes a sort of changing dreamscape.

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Do you subscribe to the idea that her relationship with Larry may be a fantasy borne of grief and loneliness? However, thematically, I do favor ambiguities.

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Still, Ingalls has always had her devotees, and each generation discovers her anew. Earlier this fall, novelist J.

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And so it goes. The slim surrealist masterpiece is the story of a romance between a lonely housewife and stick with me here an amphibious humanoid named Larry. She and her husband, Fred, recently lost a child, after which they tried to have another, but Dorothy had a miscarriage, so she bought herself a dog, which was hit by a car. This is what Galchen meant about the body count, and what I meant about the caustic streak. Now they sleep in separate beds, and Fred, not for the first time, is cheating.

He breaks into the house looking for food while Dorothy is making dinner for Fred and a business associate.

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And she was halfway across the checked linoleum floor of her nice safe kitchen, when the screen door opened and a gigantic six-foot-seven-inch frog-like creature shouldered its way into the house and stood stock-still in front of her, crouching slightly, and staring straight at her face. Dorothy has heard on the radio that Larry is dangerous, but he tells her that this is all wrong. The scientists were bad men who abducted him from his home deep in the Gulf of Mexico and at the institute repeatedly tortured and raped him; he killed them only to save himself.