Posts tagged The Good House
Domesticity and Horror: the Woman-in-House Novel
Domesticity and Horror: the Woman-in-House Novel

Right now, I want to talk about a common subgenre within horror, which I am coming to call the “woman-in-house” novel. These are not simply haunted house novels; they are not simply feminist horror novels; these are not simply gothic novels. They display a constellation of traits that makes them identifiable as the same kind of thing.

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Book reviews, Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron SummersDomestic Horror, horror, Woman-In-House Novels, The Red Tree, Caitlin R. Kiernan, T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones, Revelator, Daryl Gregory, Sundial, Catriona Ward, The Hollow Kind, Andy Davidson, The Good House, Tananarive Due, Ellen Willis, Family ChauvinismComment
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Late April, Early May 2023
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Late April, Early May 2023

Included in here is a wider variety of books than I normally read, because we have two novels that I read for the literature class I taught this past semester. Teaching literature is really different from teaching composition, and while I’d gladly do both going forward, I definitely need more practice as a literature teacher.

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Written by: Cameron, Book reviewsCameron SummersHav, Jan Morris, Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone, Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson, The Destroyer of Worlds, Matt Ruff, R.F. Kuang, Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, The Shining, Stephen King, Leech, Hiron Ennes, Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, The Dead Zone, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow, Margaret Killjoy, The Good House, Tananarive DueComment