Under a Dark Angel's Eye

By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run!

The sheer macabre, amoral brilliance of Patricia Highsmith surely makes her one of the finest writers in the English language

Every story by the unparalleled master Patricia Highsmith shimmers like a dark gem as she turns her gimlet eye on domesticity, suburban madness, toxic families, the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and always psychologically acute, this collection is not to be missed.

A writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension

If Patricia Highsmith, in her novels, holds us hostages in a maze of dark dreams, inexplicable desires, and irrational urges, in her short stories she breaks down the maze, wedges its fragments in our minds, and leaves it to us to rebuild the phantom maze and submit ourselves again to her grip

I love Patricia Highsmith . . . What a revelation her writing was

For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith - Time

To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability - Sunday Times