![]() The House in the Orchard is a richly-layered gothic novel with all the psychological penetrations that form is so celebrated for. Perfect for those who enjoyed Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic and thought, “I’d like to read some more horror involving mushrooms.”Įlizabeth Brooks, The House in the Orchard An old soldier heads to a dilapidated castle to attend to their dying friend, but strange occurrences in the decaying manor distract from the mission of comfort and raise specters from past battles. ![]() Kingfisher’s What Moves The Dead slyly reinvents The Fall of the House of Usher as a fungalpunk reckoning. Set in that 19th century placeholder for obscure nations, Ruritania, T. Lush, beautiful, and completely deserving of the comparisons to Rebecca, The Hacienda is essential reading in the gothic revival. She finds a husband she feels will elevate her status and protect her mother from persecution, but strange happenings at her new estate and rumors of hauntings threaten to derail her new life, and a sexy local priest who moonlights as a witch is her only hope of survival. In The Hacienda, set just after the Mexican War for Independence, heroine Beatriz has been dispossessed of her family fortune after her father’s fall from political grace and subsequent execution. Isabel Canas takes the gothic novel to the haciendas, just as Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic took on the history of silver mining and imperialism. Only a surface reading could dub these novels “escapist ” to read them closely is to remember the bloody building blocks of our historically haunted society. I see these markers in every one of the books below, including two that feature Gothic in a Latin American historical context. The second is race, or fear of the other, which becomes even more pronounced in the Southern Gothic narrative.” This return of the repressed usually calls into question the notion of the American Dream, and wreaks havoc on the present. “The first is the return of ideas, brutal realities, and anxieties that have been repressed, especially those related to the dichotomies on which the country was founded (e.g.
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