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71. D.E. Meredith on Doctor Forrest: “Howling-at-the-moon kind of Gothic”
The author Denise Meredith is someone with whom I’ve lately become Twitter pals, and she and I are kindred spirits in our love of the fog-beset and gas-lit aura of Victorian crime literature. In this line Denise has begun a … Continue reading
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66. Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’: Deadly Narcissus
Having rehearsed here the influence on me of a good many of the great and obvious classics of Victorian gothic, I turn a little belatedly to Wilde’s Dorian Gray (1891) – a novel the idea of which I like rather … Continue reading
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58. ‘Beguiling… dark, troubling… deliciously sly’: Doctor Forrest reviewed in City A.M.
A lovely write-up here by Jonathan Hourigan (scroll down a bit): Richard T Kelly has followed his first novel, the chunky – in both its size and ambition – Crusaders, with a beguiling, Gothic-inflected thriller. At the heart of the … Continue reading
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43. “Richard T Kelly’s Top Five in Horror” (From Amazon’s Kindle Post UK)
The other day I made a contribution to Amazon’s Kindle blog: a list of what is billed as ‘definitive spine-chilling moments in [my] top five favourite novels of Victorian/gothic mystery and horror.’ And that describes it fairly enough. With a … Continue reading
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