The Fear Room

Margaret Gibson is one of the most distinctive storytellers in the country. There’s nothing brittle about her; she has an unwavering eye, and the visionary’s eye, too. Undeterred by darkness and its derangements she is audacious as she tries to get at the truth, knowing that the redemptive light lies in the trying, not in some elusive truth. These are six long stories of often displaced, disaffected temperaments, but no reader can go away unaffected, or without a strong sense of place.