Death row in 1932, narrated from a nursing home decades later by the guard who ran the block.
Originally published as six monthly instalments, which shows in the pacing. Each section lands somewhere deliberate.
The supernatural element is gentler than most of his work and the horror is procedural. The executions are described in full, as a job with equipment and a checklist, and that is where the book does its damage.
Read April 2000.
