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Books with Nonbinary/Ungendered ProtagonistsHappy Pride Month, dear readers! I’ve written a few times on this blog about how Gothic literature has been used to explore marginalized genders...
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Review of What Grows in the Dark—A Spooky DebutWhat if you could turn your trauma into your hustle? It might not be the healthiest way of dealing, but Brigit does just that by creating a...
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Review of Vampires of El Norte—Monsters and Mexican HistoryBooks like this convince me that the vampire genre will never be dead. You think you’ve seen everything that could possibly be written about...
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The Hypnotic Tales of Rafael Sabatini ReviewI have a deep appreciation for literary scholars who aim to draw once-popular but now obscure authors out of the shadows and back into the...
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Jurassic Park and Sci-Fi Horror“At times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct….” I just read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park...
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Review of Your Shadow Half Remains—More Pandemic HorrorHumans are not meant to live in total isolation. Many of us had just a small taste of this during the shutdowns in the early days of the...
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Review of Womb City—African Sci-Fi HorrorWould you give up your freedom to live in a world without crime? This is the basis for a futuristic Botswana in Tlotlo Tsamaase’s dystopian...
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Gothic Tropes in The Hound of the BaskervillesI have written before about how detective fiction (and the mystery genre more broadly) emerged out of the Gothic . I even touched briefly...
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Review of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is MeThe world of professional ballet can be cut-throat—literally. Jamison Shea’s debut YA horror novel, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast...
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Review of A Deadly Education—Monsters and Dark MagicGoing through high school as a social outcast is hard enough when the school itself isn’t trying to kill you. At the Scholomance, being a...
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Review of Here in Avalon—A Cultish CabaretIf you could walk out of your old life, leaving everything behind, and into a new one filled with beauty, magic, and wonder, would you? Two...
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Books I’m Excited for in 2024Happy 2024! First things first: as I mentioned at the end of last week’s post , I will be moving to an every-other-week posting schedule...
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My 2023 Reading RecapWhat a great year for reading it’s been! This is the first year in at least a decade that I haven’t participated in the official Goodreads...
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Review of Sunless Solstice—Christmas Ghost StoriesAs my various posts over the years about Christmas ghost stories might suggest, I’m on a bit of a mission to bring this spooky seasonal...
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Gothic GamblesGambling is as pervasive in the world of Gothic literature as it is in the real world. Gothic novels are full of dissolute villains whose...
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Christmas Ghost Stories, Part 3’Tis the season … for Christmas ghost stories! In recent years, I’ve been all about bringing back the classic tradition of livening up the winter...
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Review of Coffin Hill—Gothic Comics“Wicked witch of Coffin Hill, buried in the woods and lives there still. Hide your face and close your eyes, if you see her you will die. Only...
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Review of A Power Unbound—Fantasy Politics and Power PlaysThere’s just nothing quite like a satisfying conclusion to a stellar trilogy. I’ve been eagerly awaiting A Power Unbound , the conclusion...
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Review of Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black HorrorJordan Peele is one of my absolute favorite directors and I think his horror films are some of the cleverest and most thoughtful contributions...
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#AScareADay Reading Challenge ReflectionsI just spent the past month reading a scary story or poem for each day of October! This ambitious task was part of a reading challenge created by...
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My Cousin Rachel Review—More Daphne du MaurierI’ve loved Daphne du Maurier ever since I read and reviewed her most famous novel, Rebecca , during the first year of this blog....
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Unique Halloween Costumes Inspired by Gothic LiteratureTired of wearing the same costumes as everyone else? Why not show off your literary knowledge and find something unique by plumbing the depths of...
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Review of Starling House—Kentucky GothicOpal has been dreaming of Starling House, but the house seems to have dreams of its own… Starling House by Alix E. Harrow is a brilliant...
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Review of Wrath Becomes Her—Gothic Golems“I am retribution!” is the battle cry of Vera the golem in Aden Polydoros’s brilliant new young adult novel Wrath Becomes Her , which...
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Review of The Widow of Rose House—Romance and Haunted HomesVictorian romance and haunted houses—I’m always on the lookout for books that combine two of my favorite things like this, and have just found...
