Jewelle Gomez' Caramelle, on the other hand, is set in approximately the same time period, the 1860s, but the life of a slave or former slave in America was a very different one from the middle/upper class of Victorian-era Austria, and the 21st century lens from which it is written is also very different. It's also telling that Gomez chose to have Elisabeth tell us her story directly, not filtered through a prologue written by a man who has placed himself between the writer and the reader.

Whether it's virus erotica like Spread Me or cult/folk horror like Make Me Better, Sarah Gailey has an ability to write characters who behave in odd, sometimes off-putting, ways that seem reasonable in the character's voice which is only multiplied by Xe Sands melodic narration.

I’ve had several of Victor Lavalle’s novels on my TBR for a long time, but I wanted when I heard the third season of The Terror was going to be based on The Devil in Silver, I knew it was time to move it to the top of the queue so I could read it before watching the show.

I didn’t know my life was missing a story where Lady Macbeth (yes, the one from Shakespeare) and Klytemnestra (from Greek mythology - this version seems to be the one from Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon) were plucked from their respective stories and brought together in a sapphic horrormance until I read Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou.

Accumulation by Aimee Pokwatka is kind of a haunted house domestic horror. Tenn, a documentary filmmaker turned wedding videographer because life be like that sometimes, and her husband Ward, move with their two kids from North Carolina to New York. In a tale as old  as time, or at least as old as The Amityville Horror, the move was meant to strengthen their marriage (though the pre-move details are unclear), and Ward sinks all their money into buying Tenn’s dream home.  They both have new jobs, but Ward’s is the one that will support them with his new six figure salary.