Horror lurks in the familiar Behind the house is a deep lake, where she sits on the bottom for hours and holds her breath - back with her husband and children, she can't shake off the nagging desire to want to go underwater forever. A boy has a hole in his throat and lost his voice - and in order to attract the attention of his broken father, he resorts to increasingly abysmal methods. A dying woman calls a friend with whom she has not spoken for thirty years, since the tragic accident back then - which of the two was actually to blame? In the razor-sharp horror stories of The Good Evil, the monsters of everyday life come so close to us that we feel their breath on our necks. Samanta Schweblin is a magician and writes with a supernatural sense about the intrusion of evil into our world - and the perfidious good that appears in it. Every dozen years, this one book is published that tears a hole in the sky.