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Review Tag: Gothic Horror
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It was only two days ago that Alma met her father, Lord Zander Avera, vessel of a god. An illegitimate child, Alma grew up in her mother’s…
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Miss Emily Gibson, daughter of Sir Hadley Gibson, is missing. In her quarters, there is a dossier of correspondence between Miss Gibson and a woman she believes…
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Torment was once a regular crow, carrying messages from the Baroness around The One City; secrets, orders, threats. Her desires lay no further than the treat she…
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In many ways, it’s hard to imagine a world which hadn’t experienced John W. Campbell’s seminal horror novella ‘Who Goes There?’, published in 1938, and harder to…
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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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Manchester 1888. Photography is a new leisure activity and a mark of wealth. However, people who have attended Toby’s photography shop undergo personality changes. They become less…
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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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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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Perdido, Alabama 1919. A flood has all but destroyed the town of Perdido, and the residents are camping at the local church, waiting for the waters to…
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A Botanical Daughter takes cues from classic botanic horror stories such asThe Flowering of the Strange Orchid by HG Wells and mashes them up with Frankenstein to…
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