A reading diary about dark romance, serialized fiction, and the stuff we reach for when the lights are out and sleep isn't coming.
Long-form notes on what's working and what isn't in the books I've been reading lately. Gothic revivals, serialized experiments, the quiet corners of dark fiction where the good work is happening.
Something interesting is happening in the way dark romance and thriller novels are being released: chapter by chapter, on weekly schedules, with cliffhangers that would make a Victorian proud. I have thoughts.
Three contemporary novelists are writing gothic the way gothic was meant to be written, and almost nobody is noticing. A short survey, a theory about why the moment favors them, and what to read first.
Saturday mornings, before most people are awake, one email goes out. Two or three short entries, a recommendation, sometimes a question. No ads. No tracking pixels. Just the journal.