4 Spooky Stars
As a youngster one of the subgenres on which I "cut my literary teeth " was the then-popular "Gothic Suspense," with gloomy covers featuring brooding mansions in the moonlight and frightened heroines in full escape. I devoured those, both the historical and contemporary settings. Probably reading so deeply in this type helped formulate some of my concepts of life: independence vs. Dependence on others, poverty vs. Wealth, romance vs. "Convenience."
HOUSE OF SHADOWS and its sequel HOUSE OF SECRETS hearken back to those halcyon days of Gothic Suspense. Its Victorian Era setting, the family home so intensely isolated, the oddly-behaving kinfolk, and the Supernatural events that dog the Argenton lineage creates a suspenseful read.
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