The Hanging Garden, the novel
The Hanging Garden - very clearly a reference to
The Hanging Garden by David Wagoner 1980
I would urge fans to buy this out of print book from Abe Books before reading this section. The book is as frightening as the song. It is by the distinguished poet David Wagoner. Lord knows how he moved on to such horror.
A man links up with a dog breeder and they move to his newly purchased house. He meets gothic horror Deliverance-like smalltown, backwoods neighbours.
He finds the Hanging Garden where sick dogs from the local pound are tortured and hanged... along with other beings. The animals scream and die. Don't read it late at night.
P40 “History is constantly being made anew”
P54 the animals cry
What was he doing?
Speaking grudgingly, Dorff said, “Hurting it.”
..”Tell the truth, it didn’t make our too good.”
“Did he kill it?”
“Not whiles he was there...”
P92
“When he came up behind her, she didn’t turn to look at him.. And then he noticed the smell. But he didn’t pay attention to it long, because there were too many other things to notice: such as the hanging animals.
Around the...clearing... the carcasses of a number of small animals had been strung up on tree branches... Two dogs... had been hung (maybe even hanged..) by short pieces of... clothesline.”
P94
“...this hanging garden without a Babylon.”
P238
In the dream he was hanging outdoors in bad weather...”
Then the dream changed and he was in a cage
P140
wide, staring. awake, but the darkness didn't go away and neither did the cage.
It wasn't just ordinary darkness, not the outdoor variety full of half recognised shapes and textures, with a sense of time and location, but utter darkness, so thick and rich he could feel the weight of it in his hands.
Wp142
His mouth tasted like iron which could have been blood yet there was an underlayer of bitterness in it toons he didn’t have any saliva to spit with, and the idea of coughing made him afraid: his throat felt broken inside.
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