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The Witch of Willow Hall, by Hester Fox. Harlequin Books, 2018
Old school gothic novel here. In the early part of the 19th century, the Montrose family finds themselves driven out of Boston by scandal. Moving to the small town/rural area where Mr. Montrose has a business interest, they settle in at the estate of Willow Hall. It’s not long before ( Read more... ) -
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The Roanoke Girls, by Amy Engel. Crown, 2017 Lane Roanoke gets a call in the middle of the night, a call she did not expect or welcome: one from her grandfather, Yates. His reason: her cousin Allegra is missing. So against her better judgement, Lane goes where she’s sworn never to go back to: the Roanoke farm in Kansas. Eleven years before, she had ( Read more... ) -
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:The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. Riverhead Books, 2009 This shouldn’t be a book I’d like. It moves slowly. The hints of supernatural events don’t show up until 100 pages into the story. The narrator is annoying and full of himself, and the other characters aren’t really ones that I came to love, although I came to care about them ( Read more... ) -
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A Fair Maiden, by Joyce Carol Oates. Houghton Mifflin, 2010 A strange story by an author who has made thousands of fans by writing about strange things ( Read more... ) -
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The Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Doubleday, 2009 The Angel’s Game is set in the same gothic Barcelona that The Shadow of the Wind is, but earlier in time. A couple of the characters from Shadow are in this book. But this Barcelona is even darker than that of Shadow; where Daniel Sempere had his father and a few friends he could trust, David ( Read more... ) -
Tales of Witchcraft, edited by Richard Dalby
Any anthology edited by Richard Dalby is worth a look, and Tales of Witchcraft is very good indeed.
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Sweeney Todd, or the String of Pearls
Sweeney Todd, or the String of Pearls is one of the most famous of the notorious “penny dreadfuls” of the 19th century, lurid crime and horror pot-boilers published in weekly instalments. The identity of the author or authors is still disputed, but the original version of Sweeney Todd, or the String of Pearls appeared in 1847. Many subsequent ( Read more... )
