I don’t usually read books that resemble movies I watch, but at Halloween time, the best time of the year, my Gothic heart is at no end of media to consume that spooky, eerie, strange, and uncanny. At this time of year, I like my movies how I like my books -- monstrous, dark, and …
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My hunt for the gothic is never ending, and it lead me to this highly peculiar novel by Charles Lambert called The Children's Home. Talking about it will be difficult, mostly because it transcends all descriptive techniques. Human speech was not designed to talk about this strange novel. The Children's Home is, in the vague …
I found Susan Hill this summer when I was hankering for a Shirley Jackson novel. I have read almost everything Jackson has put out, and since I can't perform memory charms on myself so I can read The Haunting of Hill House for the first time again, I went looking for something similar -- a …
