by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (translated by Lucia Graves) Re-post of original review Secret Societies and Ghostly Terror by Bookheathen) ‘Never mind the number of candles on your birthday cake,’ writes Zafon in his introduction to The Midnight Palace, ‘for those in the know, it’s what lies beneath them that matters’. Zafon’s first four published novels were …
Tag: Gothic fiction
The Other Mrs de Winter
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The author Sally Beauman, who has published her own novel based on Rebecca [Rebecca's Tale], writes that du Maurier began her story at the end. In a sense that is true, but those first two chapters give no real clue to what is to come. Rebecca is a novel you …
The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe 'As the carriage wheels rolled heavily under the portcullis, Emily's heart sunk, and she seemed, as if she was going into her prison .... her imagination, ever awake to circumstance, suggested even more terrors than her reason could justify.' I've been neglecting the books on my Classics Club list for a while …
