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The Animals at Lockwood Manor
by Jane Healey
This atmospheric novel follows Hetty, a National History Museum curator as she moves a vast collection of rare taxidermy to creepy Lockwood Manor to avoid the Blitz and meets Lucy, the glamorous but troubled daughter of the house plagued by terrifying nightmares about the Manor.
Throw in a mentally ill dead mother, a gaslighting lord of the manor, a cold housekeeper, and animals that keep going missing for a story that remixes classic gothic tropes to brilliant effect. Is there really a beast stalking the manor? Are there really secret rooms full of horrible things? Could I love femme seduction scenes any more? And will Hetty and Lucy get their happy ever after? These questions had me on tenterhooks the whole way through. If you love a queer spooky story, I thoroughly recommend this book.
Throw in a mentally ill dead mother, a gaslighting lord of the manor, a cold housekeeper, and animals that keep going missing for a story that remixes classic gothic tropes to brilliant effect. Is there really a beast stalking the manor? Are there really secret rooms full of horrible things? Could I love femme seduction scenes any more? And will Hetty and Lucy get their happy ever after? These questions had me on tenterhooks the whole way through. If you love a queer spooky story, I thoroughly recommend this book.