Brimstone
Rosemary Clement-Moore
- Reading
- Read the two stories separately or together; pause between them to compare how the school and college settings shape their mysteries.
- Themes
- Supernatural danger: Maggie faces a revenge-seeking demon in one story and investigates strange powers in the other. The supernatural threat is central to the plot, but its moral framing and resolution are not established.
- Campus social life and secrecy: In the college story, Maggie pledges a sorority while reporting on campus and discovers that its members have strange powers and a terrible secret. The story uses sorority life as a setting for mystery; whether it criticises or endorses its rituals is not established.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to fear and suspense.