This hit new haunted house novel is one pleasure that shouldn’t leave you feeling guilty.
—were unfairly diminished in reputation by their countless imitators and the prestige hit taken by any genre that’s particularly popular with women.
But truth be told, even those of us who love a high-end gothic novel must admit that many of the genre’s devices have lost their flavor. How many books can you read about inexperienced but scrappy young women arriving in gloomy English country estates where dark secrets lurk behind moth-nibbled velvet drapes? Even this premise, once so delicious, can get stale.
For me, gothic fiction will always be associated with the endless afternoons of a suburban childhood summer, a wedge of vicarious shadow injected in long, blank, bright days when there was nothing much to do and nowhere really to go. This pandemic summer is the ideal season for that kind of book, andis one, at least in the beginning.
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