Read By: Lauren Groff

<p>Lauren Groff on her selection:</p> <p>I've long loved "Sredni Vashtar" for its fury and wildness, and for its profound understanding of the human needs for religious reverence, ceremony, and vengeance. Poor sickly Conradin is a full, complete, utterly ghastly child whose cold final act, of simply making toast, shakes me every time.</p> <p><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9788027330973"><em>The Chronicles of Clovis</em></a> at IndieBound</p>