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“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito

October 3, 2025 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

It fascinates me, the fact that human have the capacity to mortally wound one another at will, but for the most part, choose not to. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House, the familial home of the Pounds family, fully prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, teach them about the French Revolution, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines dealing with the dreary family, the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror Tagged With: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:130 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Horror · Tags: dark comedy, gothic, horrible people being horrible, Insanity, Virginia Feito ·
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Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know…When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead

April 27, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

Okee dokee.  I feel like this keeps happening to me.  I thought this was the last book in the series, so I just kept reading from book one to book seven.  I got to the end and was like “um, what?”.  There are apparently at LEAST two books left.  That is not really a problem, but I wouldn’t have just kept mowing through the series if I knew it wasn’t finished! Anyway, this book is called Family.  Logically, I thought we’d learn more about Alice’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Alice, Cameron Jace, Insanity

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Alice, Cameron Jace, Insanity ·
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