by @Asenath Ah, incest. The Gothic’s favorite taboo, there from the very beginning. Much like the function of incest in the original Gothic novels, the horror in Pin is less focused on the perverse acts themselves than on the ways in which a young woman is forced to exchange one captor for another. Here, teenage… Continue reading Pin by Andrew Neiderman
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6 Novels Featuring Evil Dolls
by @dudedude, curator of HOWLS book club nominees for July's “Just Punt the Little Bastards: Evil Dolls and Creepy Toys” category When we're born, our parents place us, alone and defenseless, into a crib. Next to us they place a doll. As we cry and thrash our soft, marshmallow limbs, the doll lays unmoving, its… Continue reading 6 Novels Featuring Evil Dolls