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This is such great news. Gothic novels are the most mad, fun, mysterious, and chaotic kind of fiction. I read The Mysteries of Udolpho last fall and 75% of the way through, Ann Radcliffe threw in pirates. PIRATES! What other genre includes left-field pirates?!

Gothic fiction is having a moment, and the reason is clear as day - the gothic has always thrived when official narratives stop working. When institutions fail, when the version of events you’re being given doesn’t match what you’re living, that’s when readers reach for fiction that was built to distrust the story in charge. We are colle…

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