Cagefight With Your Shadow Self: Who Will Be The Mistress of Mellyn?

[sarahtales]

In the spirit of the new year, I thought we could take on one of the first modern Gothics

Comments

[norwegianne]

Ha ha.. I used to devour Victoria Holt's backlist in Norwegian at the library when I was about 12. I was rather sad when they were taken off the shelves a couple of years ago, not to be replaced. Well, me and the old ladies who loved checking her out, to the point the books were actually falling apart.

[sarahtales]

Oh no! They should at least have let you and the old ladies cagefight for the copies.

[twistedlillstar]

I... That's me. That's me you're describing.

OMG DOPPELGANGERS

[narcissa_malfoy]

... And me.

Trippelgangers?

[anonymous]

*steals line from trampy maids* Tee hee.

Thank you for this. I do love how you manage to be hilarious and insightful at the same time. And, hey, Victoria holt - wow. I tore through her novels as though they were laced with crack when I was in high school, but I've never actually made the connection that so many of her books really are Gothics.

Hurray for Gothic Tuesdays!

[sarahtales]

Aw, thank you. I am much pleased people like 'em: it's nice to have a subject!

[midnightblooms]

Victoria Holt's were the first* adult books I read growing up. I must have read through the library's entire collection at least twice. I recently came across them again in my current public library (new city, fifteen years later). They not only had some I had adored with all of my teenage-angst-ridden heart, but had some I hadn't read before. Naturally I did what any good gothic loving reader would do--I checked them all out and wallowed for weeks, nay months, in the gothic goodness.

I'm so looking forward to Unspoken.

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* Full disclosure: I discovered Ms. Holt and Agatha Christie at the same time. That was the summer of murder and evil plots and gloom! I relished it.

[midnightblooms]

I started my adult reading with Agatha, but Victoria was not far behind :)

[twistedlillstar]

OMG VICTORIA HOLT. I loved, loved, loved her back when I was 12-13, and basically devoured all her books because they were all amazing. My favourite part is probably how every single woman in them has weird eyes that change colour to go with the dress they're wearing. Because that's totally normal.

[janne]

I scored a full set of Victory Holt hardcovers for free at a fleamarket that was closing down a year or two ago. Ah, fond memories of youth . Can't have too many gothic heroines!