gothic fiction – Cannonball Read 17

Wives Die Young in Faraday House

The Third Wife of Faraday House by B.R. Myers

March 5, 2025 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

In 1816, Halifax, Nova Scotia (shout out to my hometown!) Emeline Fitzpatrick is a young woman in a pickle. A scandalous pickle. She’s fallen in love with a lieutenant in the British Navy, but he hasn’t proposed, and her guardians have set their sights higher for her marriage prospects. Instead of living her dream of sailing away to Bermuda with her beau, Emeline instead gets caught alone with them, and this results in her getting sent down the South Shore of Nova Scotia to be […]

Jane Eyre meets H.P. Lovecraft

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

December 22, 2021 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

I am a big fan of gothic fiction reinterpreted in postcolonial settings, so this was right up my alley. Moreno-Garcia’s novel follows Noemi Taboada, an upper class university student in 1950s Mexico City. When her father receives a strange letter from Noemi’s cousin, Catalina, Noemi goes to visit Catalina in the remote mining town where she lives with her husband Virgil’s family. Granted limited access to her cousin, who is said to be ‘recovering’, Noemi spends a growing amount of time with Virgil’s family, including […]

I think I’m in the minority on this one: I don’t think I liked this book?

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Morena-Garcia

February 10, 2021 by LaneyFace 10 Comments

After reading and enjoying Turn of the Screw, I craved more gothic literature. Silvia Morena-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic kept popping up on booklists everywhere, so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s now been three days since I finished the novel and I think I finally figured out how I feel about it. Set in 1950s Mexico, Mexican Gothic follows Noemí Taboada’s journey to conduct a wellness check on her cousin Catalina at the behest of her father. Catalina lives in a remote mountain town […]

It’s official: I ain’t got no cooth

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

March 8, 2019 by Dusty Highway 4 Comments

I’ve resolved to read more classics this year, and that puts me in a bit of a bind. There simply aren’t as many capital-C Classics by women (which does *not* reflect well on our culture), and I’m not that excited to overload on male writers just yet. I know this really means that I need to dig a little deeper and search a little harder to find the good stuff, but in the meantime, I have a few on my shelves, including one that I […]

How dare you sport thus with life

October 30, 2018 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR10 BINGO: This Old Thing (BINGO!) I wanted to title this one “Victor Frankenstein was a real d-bag” but I didn’t want to malign a 200-year-old classic like that. I know that I’m supposed to appreciate this book but I don’t. I tried several times over the years to read this and bailed early on. Aside from Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, I tend to not like Gothic or Gothic adjacent fiction. It just makes me roll my eyes. In the interest of securing that last BINGO square during […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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