Easing into the spooky season with The Vegetarian, a fabulously unsettling weird fiction novel. This one is certainly gothic adjacent rather than full throttle rotting castle. But if you’ve been following our reads, you should know by now that we love what lies on the edge of the gothic genre. As with much of […]
In the spirit of it being submission reading season, we have a special book to recommend. “A Devil Comes to Town” is an absurdist gothic about publishing and writing. Foxes in Dichtersruhe are dying of rabies, and that can only mean that something bad is on its way. This small mountain town (in Switzerland) […]
We’ve got more Argentinian Weird fiction to talk about. After reading Schweblin’s “Mouthful of Birds,” I jumped right over to “Fever Dream,” which was short listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. It’s literary fiction with a healthy dose of psychological and eco-horror. The story is narrated by Amanda, who is on her death […]
Weird fiction. We need to talk about it… Our name is indeed the New “Gothic” Review, but one thing we don’t talk about enough is how much the Weird and the Gothic overlap. (PS! They definitely overlap in terms of what we are looking for in submissions; so please send us your Weird short […]
We live in #Gothic times. And as a cautionary reminder that the pandemic is not over… we have one uncanny book rec: When I first started in on City of Ash and Red, I did not realize it was a pandemic book. Originally written in Korean, Hye-Young Pyun’s urban horror/ slow burn thriller was brought into English […]
Many people are showing their support through the use of the black square. If you are choosing to do this please remember to remove the Black Lives Matter hashtag so as to keep important resources easily accessible. The show of solidarity for the Black community comes in many forms, and we support them all. As […]
This one has been on the pile for a while now— I suppose I just got bit with the inspiration bug all of a sudden… . Written in 1721, A Journal of the Plague Year was an attempt by the writer Daniel Defoe to alert an indifferent London populace to the horrors of the plague, […]
A beautiful and rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, translated into the French by none other than Charles Baudelaire(!) and gorgeously illustrated by Albert Dubout. Published in 1948. These are just a handful of the wonderful illustrations.
Happy Holidays to everyone! Returning with a #gothic novel that was devoured rather quickly amid the holiday cheer—though there’s little holiday cheer to be found in this one. The Loney is an exceptionally bleak and foreboding seaside gothic. Two brothers, one over protective (our narrator), the other helplessly mute, are in a constant state of unease during […]
Happy holidays! Gearing up for that precious holiday reading time and book gift giving. What are your go to book gifts (definitely want to hear about those #gothic picks)? This Danish gothic collection tends to be a popular one on the bookshelves these days, and I always gravitate toward it on these harsh weather cold days. Karen […]
