Literature
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Kelly Thompson Hears a Hiss in ‘The Bride of Frankenstein Lives’
The Bride’s only utterances in 1935 were a hiss and a scream. A four-issue sequel treats them as speech and…
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Starling’s ‘Milkteeth’ Casts the Vampire as a Nursing Mother
Caitlin Starling’s vampire novel centers a broodmother who nurses the newly made and seeks a mortal to explain her changing…
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Portero’s ‘Cosamala’ Raises a Coven Over Andalusian Graves
Alana S. Portero follows ‘La mala costumbre’ with a gothic novel of witches and the unburied dead of Civil War…
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Chiara Polita’s ‘La benandante’ Walks Friuli’s Night Battles
In 1887 Friuli, a girl who sees the dead learns she is a benandante and turns that gift on a…
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Evenson Follows the Amputation Cult Into ‘Phantom Limb’
A sequel to ‘Last Days’ follows Kline into prison and a splinter faction after the cult loses its headquarters.
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David Sala Paints the Creature’s Long Exile in ‘Frankenstein’
A painted adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel lets color and lettering hold apart the voices of a maker and the…
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London’s ‘Honor and Curse: Eternal’ #7 and the Tengu’s Debt
An immortal shinobi flees through Exit City, but the tengu inside him acts less like a monster than a creditor…
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Brenda LaTorre’s ‘Bruja’s Nest’ Hatches a Hacienda Horror
A servant’s fertility rite, a rooster’s heart, and Santa Muerte drive a debut that makes folk devotion the engine of…
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Kuhoric Hands ‘Beware the Witch’s Shadow’ the Gavel
A black-and-white witch anthology keeps the old EC bargain, in which justice is served by monsters rather than by the…
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Jon Santana Makes Holmes the Monster in ‘Watson v. Holmes’
With Holmes turned vampire, Watson inherits the method, and the gothic wins the case Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories kept closing.
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Kaufman Charts ‘Beyond the Graves Waits Mist and Sea’
Kensington publishes a coastal gothic in which a Massachusetts island’s refuge legend sits atop Icelandic sea lore and a 1690…
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Mike Carey Turns Hunters Into Prey in ‘The Lycan’
Mike Carey’s shipwrecked hunters reach print, and Diego Yapur’s engraved storm pages turn a paid monster hunt into a trap…
