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Review of Never Whistle at Night—Indiginous HorrorFrom “wendigos” to “Indian burial grounds,” the folklore and tragic history of North America’s indigenous populations has frequently been...
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Gothic Tropes: The Cursed Wanderer“I pass, like night, from land to land…” I mentioned the cursed wanderer in my recent post on Nautical Gothic , so I wanted to examine the...
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Review of The Last Heir to Blackwood LibraryWhen Ivy Radcliffe suddenly inherits a country estate with a grand and ancient library from an unknown relative, it seems like a dream come...
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Review of Silver Nitrate—Cursed FilmsDon’t play with magic you don’t understand. You’d think this would be common sense by now, but there’s always some skeptic willing to treat...
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Nautical GothicWhat could be more frightening than the crumbling spires of an ancient castle or the echoing halls of a cursed family’s ancestral home? How about...
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Review of The Sleepless—A Debut Sci-Fi ThrillerWhat would you do if you had twenty-four waking hours per day? As tempting as that prospect sounds, journalist Jamie Vega learns that these...
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Humorous Ghost StoriesNot every ghost story has to be terrifying! Indeed, horror and humor are surprisingly similar modes of writing—both depend on eliciting certain...
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Review of A House with Good Bones—Bugs, Blooms, and BoogeymenOld houses always have buried secrets. An archeological entomologist is perhaps extra qualified to dig those up—and she’ll need to if she...
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Review of The Spare Man—Murder Mystery in SpaceDon’t you hate it when someone gets murdered on your honeymoon? To make matters worse, Tesla’s brand new husband gets accused of the crime in...
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Review of A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan PoeDo we really need a new biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a man who has been continually talked about since his death nearly two centuries ago? It...
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Review of Camp Damascus—Horrors Real and ImaginedSummer camp is one of the last places you want to find yourself if you’re living inside a horror novel. But the scariest thing about Camp...
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Review of Nettle & Bone—Fairy-Tale FantasyMarrying a prince seems like the ending of a fairy tale, but for Marra’s sister’s it is only the beginning of a nightmare. So, Marra sets out...
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Review of Starve Acre—Slow-burn Folk Horror“There’s not an inch of soil that’s still alive.” Nothing grows on the land where the town hanging tree once stood in Andrew Michael Hurley’s...
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Classics: Mistress of MellynMistress of Mellyn first edition I talk a lot on this blog about the initial Gothic heyday at the turn of the nineteenth century, which...
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Review of Night’s Edge—A Vampire PandemicYou’re not sick of pandemic books yet, are you? Liz Kerin uses the premise of a vampire pandemic—and the restrictions and lockdowns that come...
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Review of The Scourge Between Stars“Don’t open the door.” This warning comes just a little bit too late for Jacklyn and her crew in The Scourge Between Stars , a stunning...
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Review of Book of Night—Crime and Shadow MagicIt’s a bad idea to mess with those who have magic abilities you could only dream of. But Charlie Hall is full of bad ideas in Holly Black’s...
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The Quiet Stillness of Empty Houses ReviewAn orphaned governess takes up a new position in a remote manor and begins to develop inadvisable feelings for her employer. You’ve heard this...
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Folk Horror in LiteratureSomething ancient has been awakened in the woods…. This premise encapsulates the essence of many folk horror stories. I have briefly touched on...
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Re: Dracula Podcast ReviewHappy birthday to me! I just turned thirty last week and I can’t think of a better present than the fact that my birthday month is the start of...
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Bluebeard—A Proto-Gothic FolktaleThe Gothic literary movement may not have begun until the mid-eighteenth century with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto , but it draws...
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Review of FINNA and DEFEKT—Retail TerrorAnyone who has ever worked retail can probably regale you with tales of crazy customers, unreasonable managers, and hellish working conditions....
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Review of Piñata—Possession in MexicoIt’s good to get in touch with your roots, but sometimes those roots don’t want to stay buried… Apocalyptic Aztec gods and the vengeful spirit...
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Review of The Writing Retreat—Channeling Stories and SpiritsHow far would you go for a book deal? Five aspiring authors are faced with this question in Julia Bartz’s deliciously suspenseful debut The...
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Flowers in Gothic LiteratureSpring is finally here in the northeastern U.S.! Magnificent magnolia trees and sunny daffodils have been bringing a smile to my face as I go on...
