A review by beedew
The House of Dead Maids by Patrick Arrasmith, Clare B. Dunkle

2.0

It is clear that the author understands and appreciates Gothic literature, but the boom never really took off for me. It seemed like a campfire story stretched out to the length of a novel. The relation to Wuthering Heights is more of a gimmick to lure in readers than anything else. The final chapter was painful in parts as the author tried to bow tie together history and literature in the same realm. Part of what makes Brontës writing so suspenseful and intriguing is that we are never fully clear whether the horrors are supernatural or psychological in nature. This story carries no such ambiguity.