Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
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Horror is an important theme in the short story collection “Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales” by Margaret Atwood. Horror – that which is disturbing, frightening, unnerving, eerie, or cruel – is central to many of the stories in the collection. Horror makes overt and graphic appearances in particular stories, while it makes subtle appearances in others.