Domesticity in that context is almost like another form of captivity or coercion - the animal is forced into loving a person who is in fact very dangerous.īut it wasn’t a broad enough canvas - I felt there was a larger story there to be told about survival. I’ve always been fascinated by the fact that people without empathy can form such strong relationships with their pets, especially when often their violence begins with hurting animals. Myra Hindley was devastated by the death of her dog Poppet. Dennis Nilsen had a dog he loved more than anything else - the dog was the only thing he cared about when he was arrested. Initially, the novel began as a book about serial killers and their pets. Where did you get the idea for The Last House On Needless Street? But when Lauren herself goes missing, suspicion turns to terror. So she moves into the house next door to him and starts surveillance on him, to try and establish whether he’s culpable - and whether Lauren, Ted’s daughter, is in fact all she seems. A young woman named Dee, whose little sister disappeared at a nearby lake some years ago, has come to believe that Ted is responsible. Children have been going missing in the area for some time - disappearances that have never been solved. He lives with his twelve-year-old daughter Lauren, and his disapproving, Bible reading, talking gay cat, Olivia. It’s about Ted, a lonely reclusive man who lives in a boarded-up house at the end of Needless Street, on the edge of the great roiling Pacific Northwest forests of Washington State. The Last House On Needless Street takes place now. To start, what is The Last House On Needless Street about, and when and where does it take place? In the following email interview, Ward talks about what inspired and influenced this scary story, as well as why she thinks I should get a cat. As a lonely man who lives alone, I am acutely aware of how some people might suspect the worst of me, and do what I can to not arouse their suspicions, lest they find out what I’m really up to… It also makes me interested in stories about loners and the people who wonder if they’re up to no good, like the main character in Catriona Ward’s Gothic horror thriller The Last House On Needless Street ( hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
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