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Review Tag: Gothic
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Evocative. Eerie. Mythic. Down-right weird. I could say all these things, and more, about The Country Under Heaven. What I would say before all that, is it’s…
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In the coastal town of St Sinwin’s, in the great house his money purchased, Violet is at her father’s bedside when Hedrek Zennor breathes his last. And…
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Lord John Dalwood is a scholar studying ancient civilisations and is fascinated with Buddhism. When his studies uncover a branch of Buddhism known as the Black Helmets,…
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Though the title might suggest a narrative which leans heavily into low fantasy, the stories inside are more akin to magical realism. Stories, not story, feels right…
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In a cottage on the coast, Cyril waits for the world to end. The sky has turned black. His familiar, the Abyssinian Cat, Shoestring, is dead. What…
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The haunted house is a stock setting in gothic fiction, instantly familiar to readers in and outside the genre. Starling House offers a fresh take, though it…
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Writing a novel with a distinctly unlikeable main protagonist can be a bit of a tightrope: make them too unpleasant, and you’ll lose readers. But Griffin manages…
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