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Horror Book Club: The Wasp Factory

  • Solid State Books 600 H Street Northeast Washington, DC, 20002 United States (map)

Join us for Horror Book Club where we’ll discuss The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks with host Philippe Nassir. This book club meets monthly on the 3rd Wednesday.

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least:

Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.

That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.

Earlier Event: March 19
Horror Book Club: Lapvona