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Something is Wrong with these Houses
Haunted House novels are uniquely unsettling, at least I think so. They’re one of my favourite types of horror novels, and I don’t mean ghosts or creaking floor boards, I mean houses that feel alive in the worst ways. Houses that leap off the page, that watch you from the margins, that remember and slowly begin to close around the people trapped inside them, that drag you in as well. Haunted house stories are some of my favourite kinds of horror because the setting becomes part of the nightmare itself. The walls feel wrong. The rooms shift. Reality starts slipping sideways, and the longer the characters stay, the more impossible…
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Gothic Reads – My February TBR
Gothic horror is the key to my heart, it’s my forever favourite genre. For February, I decided I wanted to do a deep dive into some of the gorgeous Gothic goodies I have sitting on my shelves (physical or digital). I want haunted houses, slow-burning dread, obsession and secrets that refuse to stay buried. This year, I really want to read for myself, things that make me happy and go beyond trends, so my plan is to deep dive into gothic literature. I’d love to go back and read the classics, find all the books that created the genre I love so much, but for today and this month, I…
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Book Review – Victorian Psycho by Virgina Fieto
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor house to be governess to Drusilla and Andrew. She’s determined to play the role perfectly, bedtime stories play games but being confined within Ensor House and subjected to the petty whims of the Pounds family Winifred finds herself struggling to stifle her violent compulsions. Patience, all she needs is patience Christmas is coming and such special gifts planned for the family, shockingly special gifts. This is one of the best things I read in 2025, the whole novel is just one thing after another and by the end of it you are slightly left feeling what the hell did I just read and ist’t that…
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