‘House of Glass’ by Susan Fletcher (Book Review).

A lyrical, beautifully-written novel, House of Glass pays tribute to the ‘isolated country house’ gothic while bringing refreshing new things to the genre as well. Clara Waterfield suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease. Though she has led a sheltered, confined life in a house of padded furniture and rounded edges, Clara’s entire existence…

‘The Monsters We Deserve’ by Marcus Sedgwick (Book Review)

It started off so well and went downhill so quickly. Marcus Sedgwick’s stunningly bound and illustrated The Monsters We Deserve starts out as a good, atmospheric gothic novel and ends up as…well, I’m still not sure what it ends up as. The Monsters We Deserve (admittedly an awesome title) opens in a remote chalet in the Swiss…

‘Melmoth’ by Sarah Perry: Book Review (of sorts)

The Monster’s Words to Melmoth To Melmoth the Witness Accept the homage of one who has no name, and who, like you, was born the child of an accursed creator and cast out in the hour of my first great sin. Your travels have bloodied your feet and mine my hands, but while you have…

Victor Frankenstein reviews ‘Mary Shelley’.

It was on a dreary night of November that I woke to Beelzebub poking me in the eyeball with his tail.