7.6 /10 1 Votes
Country Sweden Genre Horror fiction | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language Swedish Copyright date 2012 Publisher Quercus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Pappersväggar (Paper Walls)
Låt de gamla drömmarna dö Similar Handling the Undead, Little Star, Let the Right One In, I Am Behind You, Harbour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let the old dreams die john ajvide lindqvist
Let the Old Dreams Die is a short story collection by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The bulk of the stories were originally published in Sweden in 2005 under the name Paper Walls. Quercus published the first English-language release in 2011, with the addition of the title story Let the Old Dreams Die.
Contents
The title story is a sequel to Lindqvist's novel Let the Right One In. Also included is The Final Processing, a sequel to Lindqvist's Handling the Undead.
Let the old dreams die
Contents
- Border
- A Village in the Sky
- Equinox
- Itsy Bitsy
- The Substitute
- Eternal/Love
- To Put My Arms Around You, to Music
- Majken
- Final Processing
- Tindalos (currently only collected in the US edition)
- Let the Old Dreams Die (collected in the UK and US editions, published separately in Sweden)
Reception
Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times wrote "It’s a good thing Lindqvist is such a lively, observant writer because, despite the relative paucity of evil, the themes of his fiction can be mighty grim: his characters spend an inordinate amount of time negotiating with the Reaper, in his various forms. Maybe it’s a Swedish thing. But his touch is a good deal lighter than that of his great, gloomy compatriot Ingmar Bergman. A Seventh Seal by Lindqvist would have plenty of jokes and perhaps even a sliver of hope. He tends to write about people who don’t take themselves, or life, too seriously — until they’re forced to, by love or fear or (most often) both."