Dorothy and her husband Fred live in the same house but live separate lives. One night a frogman stranger enters the house as Dorothy is alone in the kitchen. Listening to the radio she knows he has escaped from the Institute and is wanted for murder. She hears his story and becomes close to him....
The ease with which Rachel Ingalls slips you into this world is amazing, and the text flows so naturally. Ingalls somehow managed to make a giant frogman seem normal and human. Many times during the story I wondered if the frogman was even real. The ending is wild, and makes you reconsider everythin...
Rachel Ingall’s Mrs. Caliban is an odd novella of a bored housewife who suddenly finds someone who needs her: an amphibian man who has recently escaped from captivity. Dorothy’s husband has been drifting away from her for years. Frank stays late at the office and doesn’t say much when he is home. Th...
A quick and unsettling little read about an unhappy woman who finds brief happiness with a sea monster -- but it all ends badly for everyone. Thought provoking.
GAAAAAAAA!!! This novella is just freaky!