Women Running from Houses: a great description of one strand of Gothic history, and a delightful Gothic blog.
WRfH has some fine cover illustrations.
Young and beautiful Missie Colfax waswilling to keep her bargain with WesleyDexter when she married this worldlyolder man and came to live in his magnifi-cent mansion. She would do anything toescape the poverty and want of her youth -even be a wife to a man she barely knew.
Missie could not suspect the twistedtorment behind the icy arrogance of herbridegroom ... nor realize until too late the horror that awaited her in the hands of aman bent on making her the victim ofa strange and terrible vengeance ...
The tag list is awesome, too: Abduction (1)Accident (4)Ace Books (13)Actress (2) Aloof Servants (1)American Indian (1)Ancestral Home (9)Ancient Castle (3) Arrogant Husband (1)Avenging Ghost (6)Avon Books (3)Bad Boys (1)Ballsy Author (1)Bastard (1) Bi (1)Bitter and Warped (1)Bitter Hate (3)Broken Engagement (1)Brooding Man (2) etc.
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