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SHORT FICTION FROM RACHEL INGALLS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19890208
Author:Robert Taylor, Globe Staff

THE END OF TRAGEDY, by Rachel Ingalls. Simon & Schuster.

191 pp. $16.95.

Wilkie Collins would have relished "Friends in the Country," the first of the four stories in Rachel Ingalls' latest collection, and so would the late Charles Addams. The story is a "crawler" in the grand Victorian Gothic tradition. A yuppie couple drive to an exurban dinner party but upon arrival are not sure it is the party to which they are invited. Horrid food is served, the guests are bizarre or phony, toads choke the bathroom drain, and the couple is forced to stay overnight because on the following day ...

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