Title:: [[The Empusium]] Authors:: [[Olga Tokarczuk]] Tags:: #fiction #translatedfiction Read:: [[2024-10-18]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/jeronimo_ficus/p/DBRyTgIv6aD/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[Fitzcarraldo Editions]], 2024 - Original Copyright:: 2022 - Pages:: 336 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780593712948 ## Annotations The Empusium is not much of a horror story despite the subtitle. In fact, it’s not much of anything. The characters are forgettable and miserable and I didn’t get the sense the plot had an idea of where it was supposed to go. It gave me the feeling that The Books of Jacob (which I loved!) may just have exhausted Tokarczuk.