"So this was America." We first met Alex Easton in the reimagining of The Fall of the House of Usher, What Moves the Dead. It seems like Easton's luck has not changed, as they receive a telegram with plea for help from Dr Denton, and know that anyone who could survive the mycelial nightmare of … Continue reading What Stalks the Deep – T Kingfisher
"I was contemplating the fragments of an unidentified animal's skull, late on a wet, windy Friday in March, when a voice said, 'Booth? Is that you?'" I first met Kyle Murchison Booth in A Theory of Haunting, a 2006 novella I picked up after discovering that the author, Sarah Monette, also wrote under the name Katherine … Continue reading The Bone Key – Sarah Monette
"There was nothing scarier than a blind old woman with whites for eyes suddenly gripping your arm under a full moon night." What else to review on Valentines Day, than a romance? A dark, overly sexed-up, gothic romance, of course! 😉 Corvina Clemm has led a sheltered life, mostly alone with her mother and the … Continue reading Gothikana – RuNyx
"Rain drums its fingers on the garden shed." Olivia's life is one of absence: a voice, parents, belonging - she has none of these. Instead she has the ability to see ghouls, shadowy people in varying states of decay. She also has her mother's journal, which ends on the sentence, "You will be safe as … Continue reading Gallant – VE Schwab
"The merriment of moments before had dissolved into panic; chairs were dragged back, wine glasses tumbled to the floor." Rose is surprised to be offered the role of Head of Classics at Caldonbrae Hall, a prestigious girls' boarding school. She's an outsider to their upper-class institution, and at least a decade younger than the rest … Continue reading Madam – Phoebe Wynne
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