To my great and ongoing disappointment, Halloween isn’t a big deal here in Australia (at least, not the way […]
Gothic
My reading has taken me to some dark places of late. I didn’t plan it that way, but […]
Genre: Literary/Gothic This is the Hale farm. Here is the old milking barn, the dark opening that says, Find me. […]
Charles Lambert’s The Children’s Home (Scribner, Jan. 2016) is a strange and curious tale of family secrets, redemption and what […]
A good ghost story is hard to find, and a truly chilling contemporary ghost story near impossible. Ironically, […]
Margot McGovern reviews Susan Hill’s Gothic chiller The Woman in Black (1983). When a thick yellow fog settles over […]
Margot McGovern reflects on reading Marisha Pessl‘s eerie Gothic thriller, Night Film (2013). This is actually a sneaky […]
Possibly our favourite sub-genre of the Gothic, haunted house stories make for spooky fun reading on stormy winter nights. […]
Lectito 