Elizabeth Brooks’ debut novel,
The Orphan of Salt Winds, was hailed by BuzzFeed as “evocative, gothic, and utterly transportive.” She grew up in Chester, England, graduated from Cambridge University, and resides on the Isle of Man with her husband and two children.
Brooks’ new novel is
The Whispering House.
At
Publishers Weekly she tagged
ten of the creepiest gothic novels, including:
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
The haunted house trope seems inexhaustible: novelists are drawn back to it, time and again, and the best of them will always 
find a fresh approach. Fuller’s third novel unfolds at Lyntons, a dilapidated stately home in England, over an obscenely hot summer in 1969. The middle-aged narrator—awkward, lonely Frances Jellico—has been employed to stay at Lyntons in order to catalogue the gardens for its absent American owner. She is joined there by Peter and Cara, a charming and self-possessed young couple to whom she finds herself increasingly, and uncomfortably, attracted. As in all the best ghost stories, the supernatural elements are ambivalent–as much a projection of Frances’s disturbed mental state as of the house itself.
Read about
another entry on the list.
Bitter Orange is among
Alison Wisdom's seven top thrillers featuring communal living.
--Marshal Zeringue
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