The African Mask

“Maybe you took it off the wall and put it on the chair,” Anna said. Janet was scared. The night both Janet and Anna heard somebody crying. They switched on the lights but there was nobody there. And when they went into the study the next morning the Mask was on the floor.(p, 22)



     Janet visited Scotland because she had received a letter from her ex-boyfriend, Donald. Then she had good dinner with him, but she thought there was something different about him although she couldn’t work out what it was. It was a African mask that there were in his houses the time. Next day, she heard that Donald had died two weeks ago from his legal person...
     While I read the first half of this book, I thought this is love story. However, continuing this book, I found this is a horror story. I read this alone in my room at the night, so I felt a little bit scare. It seemed that both Dnald’s death and the unnatural phenomenon were learned to the African mask. This book was easy to read because it is written with easy words and notes. Now is summer, so We can enjoy reading horror books like this.

G, Gerngross. (2007). The African Mask. London;UK. Helbling.