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Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation …
Maybe it's a 'me problem' but I found this wildly confusing. I sort of muddled my way through to the end, and just about have an idea of what happened, but it was a difficult path to get there.
There was no sleep for him that night; he fancied he had seen the stone – which, as you know, …
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and …
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or …
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely …
Charming as were all Mrs. Radcliffe's works, and charming even as were the works of all her imitators, it was not in them perhaps that human nature, at least in the midland counties of England, was to be looked for. Of the Alps and Pyrenees, with their pine forests and their vices, they might give a faithful delineation; and Italy, Switzerland, and the South of France, might be as fruitful in horrors as they were there represented. Catherine dared not doubt beyond her own country, and even of that, if hard pressed, would have yielded the northern and western extremities.
— Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen (45%)
Austen on top form!
Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory’s intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness …
'...in suspecting General Tilney of either murdering or shutting up his wife, she had scarcely sinned against his character, or …
A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the …
There was no sleep for him that night; he fancied he had seen the stone – which, as you know, …
Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of …
