Reader, this book grabbed me by the perpetually wet shoestrings and dragged me through the night on a quixotic and tragic adventure. We know the hallmarks of Southern Gothic, but what about New England? Often we get the “spooky” bits of New England: Lovecraft, Salem, Puritans, but that’s not the full scope of New England Gothic. As a life-long resident of the damp and dark North, allow me to shed some weak Winter light on our Gothic trademarks: dying mill towns crumbling churches perpetual piles […]