by Kate M. Williams. Babysitting might not be a glamorous job, but 17-year-old Esme could really use the money given that destruction seems to follow her everywhere she goes. Cassandra, whose mother left her a mysterious directive to "find the babysitters," is desperate to join Esme's babysitters club.
Glass Houses, the first in what looks like will be a four book series for young adults, is the story of Claire Danvers, an academically gifted young lady who, unfortunately for her, winds up going to college in a town populated by vampires and their human food source. When Claire runs afoul of the big woman on campus, she has no choice but to
Contemporary Gothic children’s literature is, this chapter argues, distinctly different from Gothic fictions for adults, which often represent children as the bearers of death. In contrast, Gothic children’s literature displaces the anxieties that ordinarily accompany the representation of child death in realist fiction.
The story of twelve sisters disappearing from their crumbling manor one by one, House of Salt and Sorrows was among the first young adult gothic fantasies I read, and I loved every second of it. Craig is a master of writing spooky, suspenseful novels, whether they’re set in a haunted mansion by the sea or a quiet village on the edge of a dark
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