Sometimes when the weather becomes unbearably warm because it's summer and the planet is on fire, you want a story to transport you to misty, murky moors or a driveway lined with old trees overgrown with Spanish moss. You want to disappear into a huge, dark house and the darker, untold stories that lurk there. You want something Gothic.
Classics like "Jane Eyre" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" have been staples of my summers, but newer novels have taken up the Gothic mantle lately. If you like creepy literary hauntings, Chantal James' "None But the Righteous" or Emma Seckel's forthcoming "The Wild Hunt" are here for your every eerie desire.
