Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, stands out as a "classic instance of a story that's horrifying," Ramsey Campbell explains, "precisely because the narrator doesn’t think it is." Rachel Cusk makes the same point when, reversing a famous phrase, she describes the novel’s effect as based on "the evil of banality."

Yet other readers, perhaps deceived by the…