★酷兒小說《柳橙不是唯一的水果》作者珍奈‧溫特森
超自然力量的侵擾，生與死界線的模糊，鬼故事總是令多數讀者雞皮疙瘩，卻又愛不釋手。
23歲時以《柳橙不是唯一的水果》大獲好評的溫特森，本作帶領讀者前往鬼魂環伺的古老莊園......在那裡，一對流浪的年輕夫婦被困在莊園的黑暗過去中，一場出乎意料的沉浸式幽靈之旅悄悄展開。科技的力量也帶來了邪魅的聲音：一場西村降神會，竟讓AI科技混淆與現實的界線；以及一個元宇宙的度假屋，一名寡婦在其中與已故丈夫重逢，卻與過往熟悉的樣態有所不同......
溫特森以華麗的哥德式風格，和令人不安的當代脈絡，探討了悲傷、復仇以及科技擾亂生死界限的無數方式。
A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New York Times ), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village séance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
