Augusta Achard

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Augusta Achard The best thing about being a writer is telling stories my own way. I care about keeping literary gothic horror alive and brutal. I enjoy writing stori…moreThe best thing about being a writer is telling stories my own way. I care about keeping literary gothic horror alive and brutal. I enjoy writing stories that do not follow trends, give people easy answers, or start reassuring the reader at the last minute. I love to build dread slowly, beneath the surface, until the pressure cracks the facade of normalcy, and by the time anyone realizes it, the trap is sprung.

I trust my readers. I hate being spoon-fed “the point” or lectured to by a book. I like giving readers room to make their own determinations without telling them what to think or how to feel. That kind of respect feels like it is disappearing, and I think it matters.(less)
Augusta Achard I am currently writing my next gothic horror novel, set in Philadelphia in 2006. It tells the story of a musician whose private life is very different…moreI am currently writing my next gothic horror novel, set in Philadelphia in 2006. It tells the story of a musician whose private life is very different from her public persona. Everyone thinks they know her, but privately, she spirals into a world of increasingly dangerous situations: self-harm, stranger encounters, humiliation, drugs, and unlimited need.

After a particularly devastating experience, she gets high in a small city park at night. But there is fentanyl in the downers, and dying is only the beginning.

DEBASER is a gothic horror novel of twisted psychology, depravity, damnation, and murder.(less)
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Through Glass: The Fog

Dark foggy passageway


It was a cold, wet night and a murky fog closed around him like smoke. It drifted low between the buildings and turned the flame of the gas lamps to weak yellow smears against the dark. The side streets and alleys were engulfed by it until they looked half submerged at a distance.


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The power of The Cipher isn't the Funhole. It is the attention that is paid to it. Koja understands that horror can begin as simple fascination before it leads to ruin.

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Dracula is an influential gothic vampire novel built on a trail of historical ephemera. As the reader, you're not just being told a story. You are piecing it together from the evidence left behind.

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“It was clear that the city had none of the dignity of older capitals. It did not swagger like London, preen like Paris, or prize artistry like Vienna. Manchester was a brute. It pushed up its sleeves, and it smoked, and hammered, and grew.”
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“It was clear that the city had none of the dignity of older capitals. It did not swagger like London, preen like Paris, or prize artistry like Vienna. Manchester was a brute. It pushed up its sleeves, and it smoked, and hammered, and grew.”
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