Cleveland State University and now daydreams about having the time and resources to go back to school to study history and mythology instead. She lives in a house that has more shadows than working lights. She loves reading sci fi, fantasy, and horror, but will read really anything that catches her eye (her favorite book is none of those genres — it’s The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien).
Dotson is primarily a writer of novels and short stories, and occasionally flash fiction. Her new supernatural horror novel is The Cut.
At CrimeReads Dotson tagged five books featuring decaying settings, including:
Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno GarciaRead about another entry on the list.
When wealthy socialite Noemí Taboada receives an alarming letter from her recently-married cousin, she travels to the cousin’s English husband’s family estate, High Place, in the Mexican countryside to check on her and make sure allis well. Upon her arrival she finds High Place inhospitable and the family strange, her cousin is unwell and behaving oddly, and an aura of uncanny danger hangs over the house and its environs. Can Noemí discover the estate’s secrets in time to rescue her cousin—and to save herself, now that she’s entangled in High Place’s mysteries?
High Place was such a moody and atmospheric setting, when reading this book I felt like I could all but smell the mildew and feel the damp and the pervasive sense of dread. If you love historical horror with modern sensibilities set in a decaying, once-grand old house, then … well you’ve probably already read Mexican Gothic, but if you love all those things and you haven’t yet read this one, definitely give it a shot.
Mexican Gothic is among Samsun Knight's seven horror novels about mysticism.
--Marshal Zeringue
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