Gothic Book Review: The Undoing of Violet Claybourne
Title: The Undoing of Violet Claybourne Author: Emily Critchley Format: ebook Rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 Thank you to Recorded Books for providing a copy of this book for review via NetGalley Publisher’s Summary Three enigmatic sisters. A Boxing Day hunt gone awry. One story, the real story, is finally coming to light. 1999: When successful writer Gillian…
Book Review: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Title: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Author: Grady Hendrix Format: Audiobook Rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤 Publisher’s Summary There’s power in a book…. They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in…
Gothic Book Review: The Devil and Mrs. Davenport
Title: The Devil and Mrs. Davenport Author: Paulette Kennedy Format: Paperback Rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤 Publisher’s Summary The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible…
Gothic Book Review: The Woman in Black
Title: The Woman in Black Author: Susan Hill Format: Hardcover Rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 Publisher’s Summary A classic ghost story about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford—a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway—to attend the funeral and…
Gothic Book Review: The Writing Retreat
Title: The Writing Retreat Author: Julia Bartz Format: Paperback Rating: 🖤🖤 Publisher’s Summary A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding nightmare… Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat…
Gothic Book Deep Dive: Plain Bad Heroines
Title: Plain Bad Heroines Author: Emily Danforth Format: Paperback Rating: 🖤🖤🖤🖤 Deep Dive I’m trying something new with this review! This book grabbed me and didn’t let go and I thought it deserved a longer, more in-depth look at all of its Gothic glory. Let me know what you think and if you’d like more…
Gothic Book Review: The Last Heir of Blackwood Library
Title: The Last Heir of Blackwood Library Author: Hester Fox Format: Paperback Rating: 🖤🖤🖤 Publisher’s Summary In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets… With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors.…
5 Modern Gothic Novels Set in Spring and Summer
As the days get longer and the flowers start to bloom, it’s easy to think of spring as a time of renewal and hope. But for fans of gothic horror, spring can also be a time of darkness and dread. Here are five gothic horror novels that take place in the spring, perfect for those…
No Spoiler Review: The Dead and the Dark
Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers point to TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just come to town.
Preptober and NaNoWriMo: 50,000 Word Novels
Hi spooky friends! It’s that time of year again…Preptober! Who all is participating in NaNoWriMo this year? I debated doing it as I’m pretty busy between working full time and taking some online classes, but I had so much fun with it last year that I’m going to give it a go! Last year was…
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