Ever wondered what it feels like to be trapped on a New England [woo!] rock with an increasingly strange boss who treats you like crap while a nor’easter storm brews ominously in the foreground? Then enter The Lighthouse.
Weirder than even The VVitch, Dave Eggers‘s sophomore offering is another entry in the modern-horror-fable subgenre, and a fine evocation of insidious sea shanties of yore.