The Haunting of Whitehall Manor by L.V. Pires┃Book Review┃Gothic Horror Thriller

Jenny discusses a 2023 novel about a woman who has to return to her childhood estate to care for her estranged mother, and discovers all kinds of horrible secrets.
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[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

I’ve seen this book around. Sounds like it was inspired by the Winchester Mansion? Especially with the gun shots. But Kaz Rowe has a really interesting video on how the story of that mansion is played up and the woman inside was treated poorly in the press. Now that I think of it you might enjoy her channel. If you get a chance her Cottingley Fairies video is also so cool, I wish there was a historical fiction/horror out there about that event.

[@shaestewart5261]

Okay, so I have not only read my fair share of gothic tales, but I’ve also taught the genre at the college level. Admittedly, I use the term “Gothic genre” loosely because, rather than being a true area of study with a specific canon and blah, blah, blah, the idea of “Gothic” is more a theme which runs through multiple novels of the Victorian period, many of which are categorized as something other than “Gothic”. I suppose some classic stories exist such as The Castle of Otranto and almost anything by Ann Radcliffe, but then there are also novels such as Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights which have the theme running through them, but these stories and their authors alike, particularly Dickens, are not considered Gothic writers, as it were.
Anyway, I’m totally digressing. What I should have said, and in far fewer words, is that one of the main facets of the so-called “Gothic” is a tormented and troubled romance characterized by an extremely slow and “will they or won’t they?” beginning to the love story. Frankly, based on the review, it seems this most important characteristic is completely absent from the novel. That is definitely a Gothic no-no!