I have an almost forty-year history with Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen); I spent the night I was born apparently listening to my mother read Out of Africa/Shadows on the Grass out loud. (A year or two ago I managed to read them myself, as I hated not knowing how it ended.) Which sparked in me a curiosity to read some of her fiction, and this was the first book of hers I found in my TBR heap. Seven Gothic Tales, as the title suggests, […]