The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks • 1984
Devastation Rating
horror trauma literary fiction mental health
Our Take
Frank Cauldhame has killed three people by age sixteen and narrates his rituals on a Scottish island with the flat confidence of someone who has found a working system. Banks withholds the truth about Frank until the end and the revelation recontextualises everything — not as excuse but as another layer of damage.
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