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Catherine the Ghost
From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kathe Koja comes a fiercely poetic homage to Emily Brontë’s supernatural masterpiece Wuthering Heights, where love is relentless and the dead are never gone.
Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, captivity, and the dark edge of eternity itself, to claim their full existence and share their power. With hauntings that escape the page and passion that bleeds them red, Koja crafts a tale that transcends the material plane as an eerie comfort that ghosts keep loving long past the grave.
This modern gothic punk remix of Emily Bronte’s classic Wuthering Heights is a ghost story told from the POV of Catherine Earnshaw’s restless spirit from beyond the grave. With artful interior illustrations and classy French flaps, this short novel is a collector’s edition that is sure to delight fans of ghost stories, feminist retellings of classics and the cult fan base of Kathe Koja, who has built a legacy with her intense speculative and horror fiction ever since her award-winning debut, The Cipher.
Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, captivity, and the dark edge of eternity itself, to claim their full existence and share their power. With hauntings that escape the page and passion that bleeds them red, Koja crafts a tale that transcends the material plane as an eerie comfort that ghosts keep loving long past the grave.
This modern gothic punk remix of Emily Bronte’s classic Wuthering Heights is a ghost story told from the POV of Catherine Earnshaw’s restless spirit from beyond the grave. With artful interior illustrations and classy French flaps, this short novel is a collector’s edition that is sure to delight fans of ghost stories, feminist retellings of classics and the cult fan base of Kathe Koja, who has built a legacy with her intense speculative and horror fiction ever since her award-winning debut, The Cipher.
121 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2024
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Kathe Koja
130 books931 followersKathe Koja is a writer, director and independent producer of live and virtual events. Her work combines and plays with genres, from horror to YA to historical to weird, in books like THE CIPHER, VELOCITIES, BUDDHA BOY, UNDER THE POPPY, and CATHERINE THE GHOST.
Her ongoing project is the world of DARK FACTORY https://darkfactory.club/ continuing in DARK PARK, with DARK MATTER coming out in December 2025.
She's a Detroit native, animal rights supporter, supporter of democracy, and huge fan of Emily Bronte.
Her ongoing project is the world of DARK FACTORY https://darkfactory.club/ continuing in DARK PARK, with DARK MATTER coming out in December 2025.
She's a Detroit native, animal rights supporter, supporter of democracy, and huge fan of Emily Bronte.
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October 23, 2024
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Kathe Koja approaches the Gothic not only as an expression of mourning, but also of reclamation and literary rebellion. This is a book of hauntings within hauntings, Brontë's specter overlooking Koja's resurrection of Wuthering Heights and the ghosts that hover on its margins. Catherine the Ghost is, like all of Koja's novels, a sustained spectacle of style and voice—the author's prose dazzles sentence by sentence, servicing a meticulously cultivated work of strange and shimmering frisson.
Kathe Koja approaches the Gothic not only as an expression of mourning, but also of reclamation and literary rebellion. This is a book of hauntings within hauntings, Brontë's specter overlooking Koja's resurrection of Wuthering Heights and the ghosts that hover on its margins. Catherine the Ghost is, like all of Koja's novels, a sustained spectacle of style and voice—the author's prose dazzles sentence by sentence, servicing a meticulously cultivated work of strange and shimmering frisson.
October 16, 2025
We all know the story of Wuthering Heights. Of Cathy and Heathcliff's tumultuous relationship, Cathy's death, and how Heathcliff fell into further cruelty with the children of both the titular home and Thrushcross Grange. Catherine the Ghost takes places with the original narrative, but from the perspective of Cathy's ghost haunting Heathcliff and the land of Wuthering Heights and from the perspective of her daughter Catherine--who I well hence forth refer to by the longer name--as she navigates her life around the house and her growing relationship with Hareton, her cousin, and the domineering Heathcliff.
Up front, I will say that a lot of this book retreads the same ground in Wuthering Heights, even certain lines are repeated in the text, but I did not find it unenjoyable because of that. I found the perspective of Cathy's ghost, once we got past the brief recap, to be very enjoyable yet also utterly sad. What kept me interested in this book was its quick pacing and Kathe Koja's ability to retain a Gothic prose that had enough of an "Old-Timey" feel, but was not a complete imitation of Emily Brontë's prose which aids the two perspectives she wrote.
Cathy's perspective is haunting and ruminating, and perhaps just a little twisted. Now wandering the desolate world of the dead, for lack of a better word, Cathy cares little about some of the former people in her life, particularly for her father and husband Edgar. There's a short moment where she says she tried to find her brother Hindley in death, but could not, and despite how she hated how he viewed her and Heathcliff, there's is a moment of anguish from her missing him. Cathy has long rejected the demands of the living world, about how a young woman such as her should have lived. To reference a prominent moment from the original novel, she is not in Heaven and is glad. She only desires her Heathcliff and for a better life for the daughter she never met before she died.
Now, I've seen some other reviews that say that Koja misunderstood Wuthering Heights as a romance because of Cathy's perpetual and (quite literally) undying desire to be with Heathcliff. Personally, I did not get this impression. It is true that the original novel is not a romance and that it is often misunderstood as such by people who haven't read it, marketers, and another who may have seen the 1939 film. But still, it is a story about love. A twisted and toxic love, yes, but a genuine love nonetheless. I do believe Heathcliff and Cathy greatly and truly loved each other, but they were just as cruel to each other and others as their world was to them.
"no one is safe from love"
This obsession and toxic love still continues in Cathy's ghostly viewpoint. I don't think it's Koja saying it was truly romantic all long or that her and Heathcliff finally have a healthy relationship in death. Koja is showing us, not telling us, that this twisted love still endures after death. She is remaining true to Brontë's book.
Catherine's perspective is less haunting, obviously, though you can still sense her mother's ghost in the periphery--and at certain points Catherine (and Heathcliff) do as well--but is nonetheless bittersweet. She's a girl just trying to find a genuine friend in the hellish situation she's been placed in. It most focuses on her growing friendship with the reluctant Hareton. Like her mother, Catherine is a rebel, though she is much kinder than her mother. That's not a dig at the original Cathy and I think, again, that was a point from Brontë too. Cathy had a right to be angry in life, her passion, present in her since her wild childhood, was suffocated by her marriage to Edgar, but she took that anger too far sometimes. Catherine knows and sees the cruelties that try to crush her, but she realizes teasing Hareton for his lack of literacy--for his lack of not having much of anything, much like Heathcliff in his youth--does no good. She loves teaching him to read, even if he is reluctant at first, and the moments between them are so sweet, they make you feel for those poor kids just before Heathcliff ruins it for them.
Catherine's perspective is not simply "If you're nice, things will go well," nothing as surface level as that, nor is she simply the "good, well-behaved girl" to her mother's wild and "ill-tempered bad girl." As the above quote from Cathy the ghost states, love comes for everyone. Catherine does tries to love Heathcliff (like a father) and see the love in him, but she learns it is for not. She gives love to Hareton and mines for the love buried within him, because only then can she make an Eden out of the Hell that is Wuthering Heights.
What I like about Catherine the Ghost is that it "fill in the blanks from the original novel" like some other re-imaginings, but does it better than most of them. This doesn't mean what Brontë original wrote was bad or wrong, it just means that Koja offer a new perspective that I could see slotting into Wuthering Heights perfectly.
The end is still bittersweet. After Heathcliff's death, Hareton is genuinely upset. Heathcliff was the only father figure he truly had (he doesn't remember his real father Hindley), but Heathcliff was cruel and disturbed. Cathy and Heathcliff are reunited in death, in their twisted love, and then have become part of the land, watching over Catherine, Hareton, and the rest. How much will they keep them safe and how much will they torment them? Most of all, Catherine has found love and a companion in Hareton, which is the best part.
I think if you've read the original Wuthering Heights you will come to this book thinking, "I'm pretty sure some of this already happened in the original book." And sure, some of it did; Koja doesn't tread new ground in some parts, especially the first half. Nonetheless, I really liked this book because it made me appreciate Wuthering Heights even more and made realize things about the original story I hadn't noticed or had forgotten.
"we are terror and love"
It's all so terrifying, beautiful, sad, and lovely.
Up front, I will say that a lot of this book retreads the same ground in Wuthering Heights, even certain lines are repeated in the text, but I did not find it unenjoyable because of that. I found the perspective of Cathy's ghost, once we got past the brief recap, to be very enjoyable yet also utterly sad. What kept me interested in this book was its quick pacing and Kathe Koja's ability to retain a Gothic prose that had enough of an "Old-Timey" feel, but was not a complete imitation of Emily Brontë's prose which aids the two perspectives she wrote.
Cathy's perspective is haunting and ruminating, and perhaps just a little twisted. Now wandering the desolate world of the dead, for lack of a better word, Cathy cares little about some of the former people in her life, particularly for her father and husband Edgar. There's a short moment where she says she tried to find her brother Hindley in death, but could not, and despite how she hated how he viewed her and Heathcliff, there's is a moment of anguish from her missing him. Cathy has long rejected the demands of the living world, about how a young woman such as her should have lived. To reference a prominent moment from the original novel, she is not in Heaven and is glad. She only desires her Heathcliff and for a better life for the daughter she never met before she died.
Now, I've seen some other reviews that say that Koja misunderstood Wuthering Heights as a romance because of Cathy's perpetual and (quite literally) undying desire to be with Heathcliff. Personally, I did not get this impression. It is true that the original novel is not a romance and that it is often misunderstood as such by people who haven't read it, marketers, and another who may have seen the 1939 film. But still, it is a story about love. A twisted and toxic love, yes, but a genuine love nonetheless. I do believe Heathcliff and Cathy greatly and truly loved each other, but they were just as cruel to each other and others as their world was to them.
"no one is safe from love"
This obsession and toxic love still continues in Cathy's ghostly viewpoint. I don't think it's Koja saying it was truly romantic all long or that her and Heathcliff finally have a healthy relationship in death. Koja is showing us, not telling us, that this twisted love still endures after death. She is remaining true to Brontë's book.
Catherine's perspective is less haunting, obviously, though you can still sense her mother's ghost in the periphery--and at certain points Catherine (and Heathcliff) do as well--but is nonetheless bittersweet. She's a girl just trying to find a genuine friend in the hellish situation she's been placed in. It most focuses on her growing friendship with the reluctant Hareton. Like her mother, Catherine is a rebel, though she is much kinder than her mother. That's not a dig at the original Cathy and I think, again, that was a point from Brontë too. Cathy had a right to be angry in life, her passion, present in her since her wild childhood, was suffocated by her marriage to Edgar, but she took that anger too far sometimes. Catherine knows and sees the cruelties that try to crush her, but she realizes teasing Hareton for his lack of literacy--for his lack of not having much of anything, much like Heathcliff in his youth--does no good. She loves teaching him to read, even if he is reluctant at first, and the moments between them are so sweet, they make you feel for those poor kids just before Heathcliff ruins it for them.
Catherine's perspective is not simply "If you're nice, things will go well," nothing as surface level as that, nor is she simply the "good, well-behaved girl" to her mother's wild and "ill-tempered bad girl." As the above quote from Cathy the ghost states, love comes for everyone. Catherine does tries to love Heathcliff (like a father) and see the love in him, but she learns it is for not. She gives love to Hareton and mines for the love buried within him, because only then can she make an Eden out of the Hell that is Wuthering Heights.
What I like about Catherine the Ghost is that it "fill in the blanks from the original novel" like some other re-imaginings, but does it better than most of them. This doesn't mean what Brontë original wrote was bad or wrong, it just means that Koja offer a new perspective that I could see slotting into Wuthering Heights perfectly.
The end is still bittersweet. After Heathcliff's death, Hareton is genuinely upset. Heathcliff was the only father figure he truly had (he doesn't remember his real father Hindley), but Heathcliff was cruel and disturbed. Cathy and Heathcliff are reunited in death, in their twisted love, and then have become part of the land, watching over Catherine, Hareton, and the rest. How much will they keep them safe and how much will they torment them? Most of all, Catherine has found love and a companion in Hareton, which is the best part.
I think if you've read the original Wuthering Heights you will come to this book thinking, "I'm pretty sure some of this already happened in the original book." And sure, some of it did; Koja doesn't tread new ground in some parts, especially the first half. Nonetheless, I really liked this book because it made me appreciate Wuthering Heights even more and made realize things about the original story I hadn't noticed or had forgotten.
"we are terror and love"
It's all so terrifying, beautiful, sad, and lovely.
December 15, 2024
I do not know what I just read. This was awful and took me forEVER to read. Do not recommend!
August 27, 2024
This very lyrical novel tells the point of view of both Catherines from Wuthering Heights: the mother and her daughter. The POV switches back and forth, but it is always fairly easy to tell which Catherine it is.
I thought this book was very atomospheric, with a definite gothic vibe. The writing style was great, and fit in so well with the Wuthering Heights writing style.
I would definitely recomend reading Wuthering Heights before reading this one. It had been years since I'd read it, so I did google the plot just to be more familiar with the characters.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I thought this book was very atomospheric, with a definite gothic vibe. The writing style was great, and fit in so well with the Wuthering Heights writing style.
I would definitely recomend reading Wuthering Heights before reading this one. It had been years since I'd read it, so I did google the plot just to be more familiar with the characters.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
September 8, 2025
I have no idea how to rate this book, let alone describe it? When describing it to Ben, I could only emphasize how confused this book made me feel from start to finish but It's so short I had to see what happened.
January 13, 2025
I loved this so much I’m going to recommend it to everyone I know!!! Absolutely hated wuthering heights, absolutely love this in its place. Turns out I just needed to hear it from the ghosts.
August 15, 2024
Catherine the Ghost
Kathe Koja
4.25 / 5
Ok, so ...
If Wuthering Heights was written by a punk goth feminist, it might read something like Catherine the Ghost, where the story is retold in a VERY different and much darker, deeper voice.
This is pure genius. Just as I expected.
And as always, the writing ... Breathtakingly beautiful, even while grotesque. So poetic. So visceral. So Kathe Koja.
I'm working my way through all Kathe Koja's novels currently ... And loving every sentence of it.
Thanks for an ARC eBook in exchange for my honest review.
Kathe Koja
4.25 / 5
Ok, so ...
If Wuthering Heights was written by a punk goth feminist, it might read something like Catherine the Ghost, where the story is retold in a VERY different and much darker, deeper voice.
This is pure genius. Just as I expected.
And as always, the writing ... Breathtakingly beautiful, even while grotesque. So poetic. So visceral. So Kathe Koja.
I'm working my way through all Kathe Koja's novels currently ... And loving every sentence of it.
Thanks for an ARC eBook in exchange for my honest review.
February 16, 2025
Kathe Koja's Catherine the Ghost is a compelling reimagining of Emily Brontë's classic Wuthering Heights, offering a fresh perspective by delving into the inner lives of Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter, Catherine Linton. This modern gothic punk remix shifts the narrative focus, granting agency and voice to its central female characters.
In the original Wuthering Heights, the story is primarily conveyed through the perspectives of characters like Nelly Dean, which often keeps Catherine at a distance. Koja's novel, however, places Catherine's ghost at the forefront, providing her with a platform to narrate her own story. This shift in perspective allows readers to experience events from Catherine's viewpoint, offering new insights into her motivations and emotions. The narrative alternates between first-person accounts from the elder Catherine's spirit and third-person perspectives focusing on her daughter, creating a layered and intimate portrayal of their intertwined fates.
Koja's prose is both lyrical and atmospheric, capturing the wild, untamed essence of the moors and the intense passions of its inhabitants. The novel delves deep into themes of love, loss, and the supernatural, exploring how the bonds between mother and daughter transcend even death. By embracing the ghostly elements hinted at in Brontë's original, Koja crafts a tale where the supernatural is a powerful force that shapes the characters' destinies.
The physical presentation of the book is noteworthy, featuring artful interior illustrations and elegant French flaps, making it a collector's edition that will appeal to fans of gothic literature and feminist retellings.
Catherine the Ghost stands as a testament to Kathe Koja's ability to honor a literary classic while infusing it with her unique voice and vision. It's a haunting and evocative read that invites both fans of the original and newcomers to explore the depths of its reimagined world.
In the original Wuthering Heights, the story is primarily conveyed through the perspectives of characters like Nelly Dean, which often keeps Catherine at a distance. Koja's novel, however, places Catherine's ghost at the forefront, providing her with a platform to narrate her own story. This shift in perspective allows readers to experience events from Catherine's viewpoint, offering new insights into her motivations and emotions. The narrative alternates between first-person accounts from the elder Catherine's spirit and third-person perspectives focusing on her daughter, creating a layered and intimate portrayal of their intertwined fates.
Koja's prose is both lyrical and atmospheric, capturing the wild, untamed essence of the moors and the intense passions of its inhabitants. The novel delves deep into themes of love, loss, and the supernatural, exploring how the bonds between mother and daughter transcend even death. By embracing the ghostly elements hinted at in Brontë's original, Koja crafts a tale where the supernatural is a powerful force that shapes the characters' destinies.
The physical presentation of the book is noteworthy, featuring artful interior illustrations and elegant French flaps, making it a collector's edition that will appeal to fans of gothic literature and feminist retellings.
Catherine the Ghost stands as a testament to Kathe Koja's ability to honor a literary classic while infusing it with her unique voice and vision. It's a haunting and evocative read that invites both fans of the original and newcomers to explore the depths of its reimagined world.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 25, 2024
Choosing to create a book out of a widely respected classic novel (dare I say a perfect novel for its time) is no small feat. However, there is no author I know that could have done it justice like Kathe Koja. I've known her for years, and we've had many conversations about Wuthering Heights, its impact on literature, Bronte's absolutely unforgiving prose, and the brilliant narrative of WH.
Catherine the Ghost is written from two perspectives. We have the first person perspective Catherine Earnshaw, a restless ghost longing to do anything in her power to reunite with Heathcliff (no matter how vile he is) and maybe even talk to the daughter she never knew, Catherine "Cathy" Linton, since Catherine died giving birth to her. Then we have Cathy, whose story is told from the third person, and the book alternates between the two point of views, both characters on what seems to the similar journeys to reunite, but somehow still separated by a ghostly veil that keeps them apart from one another.
Catherine's POV is the stronger of the two, she knows what she wants, knows what she has to do and is just trying to find a way to do it (reunite with Heathcliff! And maybe talk to her daughter). Cathy feels a little lost, a little angsty even (rightfully so at that time), unsure of what she wants out of life and what she wants to become. Does she want to speak to her mother? Or does she just want to break the chains that have held her down all her life?
Catherine the Ghost is a short but powerful compendium and will resonate for any fans of Catherine Earnshaw (like me) who thought she was one of the best characters in WH, but barely had enough pages to flesh her out fully. I recommend the book highly.
Catherine the Ghost is written from two perspectives. We have the first person perspective Catherine Earnshaw, a restless ghost longing to do anything in her power to reunite with Heathcliff (no matter how vile he is) and maybe even talk to the daughter she never knew, Catherine "Cathy" Linton, since Catherine died giving birth to her. Then we have Cathy, whose story is told from the third person, and the book alternates between the two point of views, both characters on what seems to the similar journeys to reunite, but somehow still separated by a ghostly veil that keeps them apart from one another.
Catherine's POV is the stronger of the two, she knows what she wants, knows what she has to do and is just trying to find a way to do it (reunite with Heathcliff! And maybe talk to her daughter). Cathy feels a little lost, a little angsty even (rightfully so at that time), unsure of what she wants out of life and what she wants to become. Does she want to speak to her mother? Or does she just want to break the chains that have held her down all her life?
Catherine the Ghost is a short but powerful compendium and will resonate for any fans of Catherine Earnshaw (like me) who thought she was one of the best characters in WH, but barely had enough pages to flesh her out fully. I recommend the book highly.
January 13, 2025
Known for her groundbreaking 1991 debut, The Cipher, Kathe Koja has long been a cult favorite among horror fans. Her influence continues to ripple through the genre and has only grown stronger as her earlier material gets brought back into print. With her latest work, billed as a “Gothic punk remix” of
Wuthering Heights
, Koja reimagines Emily Brontë’s novel through a fractured, dual perspective: that of Catherine Earnshaw’s ghost and her daughter, Catherine Linton.
You can read Stephen McClurg's complete review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
You can read Stephen McClurg's complete review at Horror DNA by clicking here.
December 15, 2024
The only thing horrifying about this book is that the author thought the original was a love story. This reads more like a remix of the song Wuthering Heights than the book. This isn't a horror novel. It's not a remix either. It's just a bland summary from the perspective of a ghost and her daughter. Koja doesn't do anything interesting with her own idea. I expected something more frightening and nuanced from an award winning horror writer. The grammar is atrocious. It is clearly a choice to have copious run-on sentences, confusing syntax, and limited punctuation. If you are going to break the rules of a language, then the reader should be able to figure out why. It should add to the story. This doesn't do that. I can not think of a single reason she would write this book the way she did. At least the illustrations were nice and creepy. Skip this snooze fest, yep, it put me to sleep, and go read the claustrophobic, atmospheric, terrifying gothic horror this book summarizes instead.
December 13, 2024
the stream of conscious style through this “wuthering heights” adaptation suit catherine very well. there were plenty of gothic and gorgeous passages that do feel as though they’re being told by a ghost, untethered to the mortal world except in memory and striking moments. the final pages spoke to me the most as a cathy fan with the musings of her now an eternal spirit. i think this book would be best read alongside or right after the original novel though as it feels like one needs to be very familiar with that text to understand all the references in this one, especially with its liminal verse. i plan to reread next time i read “wuthering heights” and i hope my enjoyment of it increases then
January 24, 2025
3.5 stars. Beautifully written and she does a great job matching the voice and tone of Wuthering Heights. I enjoyed this and I think fans of Wuthering Heights would too. If you hated Wuthering Heights or have never read that book then you will not like this. It made me feel more sympathy towards Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship and gave a little bit (just a tiny bit) of justification for their behaviour. I had to refresh my memory on some of the characters in Wuthering Heights while I read this (I haven’t read the book in over 10 years) so you may also need to refresh your memory before digging in.
November 16, 2024
A thoughtful and heartfelt retelling of Wuthering Heights from the viewpoint of Catherine, now a ghost, and her daughter who feels her presence. It set me to rereading the original, which paled in comparison. Catherine the Ghost is both splendidly eerie and psychologically satisfying. These two women are real, even if one is ghost!
The prose in this book is beautifully lyrical and the illustrations and cover art make it a very attractive package. Congratulations to Kathe Koja for surpassing the original in this retelling and for Clash books for producing such a lovely volume.
The prose in this book is beautifully lyrical and the illustrations and cover art make it a very attractive package. Congratulations to Kathe Koja for surpassing the original in this retelling and for Clash books for producing such a lovely volume.
April 28, 2025
This short and very different story is a take-off of Emily Bronte's famous classic, Wuthering Heights. Two woman, a mother and daugher have never got to meet each other for the mother died early on. Determined to love again, the mother comes back and claims the life that she wanted. This book can be read in an hour or two and will keep you there. I haven't read anything like it before; I must say it is very unusual but entertaining. I do recommend it to those who are interested in ghosts, etc. Enjoy!
October 18, 2025
Though the cover art may try to deceive you into thinking this is a corny YA horror, this Wuthering Heights retelling is actually a well-written, almost poetic homage to the original work. I enjoyed it more than I had expected. The narration changes between the two Catherines, adding nuance and details to the characters without going against the source material in any way I could discern. You do, however, need to have read the book by Emily Brontë for this small volume to make all the sense, otherwise you shall drown in an avalanche of names and events that do not care for chronology.
July 28, 2025
I thought this was a good story about what happened to Catherine after she died and then returned to haunt the Heights and reclaim Heathcliff. I actually liked this better than the original story. Perhaps because the English is easier than Emily Bronte's. I really found Wuthering Heights to be a very depressing and brutal kind of "love story" but I guess that was the point. This work of Kathe Koja's is worth a read even if you didn't like Wuthering Heights.
November 16, 2024
Very short retelling of the period after Catherine's death in Wuthering Heights (I don't think that's a spoiler since the original novel has been published for 170 years).
It's hard to live up to one of the most classic English novels of all time, and the writing of this did fit in well.... but it felt a little rushed.
It's hard to live up to one of the most classic English novels of all time, and the writing of this did fit in well.... but it felt a little rushed.
December 30, 2024
Kathe Koja has accomplished a rare feat and not only built a story on Wuthering Heights but made the story of Wuthering Heights better. Koja gives a voice to Catherine that makes me feel for Catherine and life under Heathcliff.
March 13, 2025
Kathe GETS IT. The anguish, the desperation, the longing: everything I cherish about Wuthering Heights. This was a wonderful extension and expansion of my very favorite story. Heathcliff + Cathy 4ever.
November 9, 2024
I am clearly not a big enough fan of Wuthering Heights for this book.
April 24, 2025
This didn’t not work for me and yet it did work for me? 2.5 I’m still thinking about it…
May 3, 2025
I haven't read Wuthering Heights in 60 or so years, but this book brings back and creates a lovely ending for a favorite book.
June 2, 2025
a fine read for those who appreciate the aesthetic of gothic novels but just can’t deal with the excessive page count of the classics
November 8, 2025
I fear the best parts were the parts that directly took from Wuthering Heights.
June 5, 2025
The best thing about this book is that it inspired me to reread Wuthering Heights for the first time in about 30 years. Aside from that, I feel like it was “just okay.”
September 2, 2025
I’m not sure if you’d call this a poem or an art piece. Either way it’s a lovely ode to Withering Heights
September 18, 2025
"sleep is for the body, death is for the body
surely you, and everybody, have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you
we have ours now, bliss upon bliss upon bliss
whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
I only found this novella's existence by a mere chance and now i am a wreck once more.
Not to be dramatic but this novella felt like an extended version of Wuthering Heights where we get to know Cathy's POV (as a ghost) and also her daughter Catherine's. It's not that i think that the writing is on par with Emily Brontë or anything but somehow the author has succesfully matched the tone and mood of the original book. And what's more, it perfectly embodies Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights it's actually insane tbh. 4.5 ⭐
surely you, and everybody, have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you
we have ours now, bliss upon bliss upon bliss
whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
I only found this novella's existence by a mere chance and now i am a wreck once more.
Not to be dramatic but this novella felt like an extended version of Wuthering Heights where we get to know Cathy's POV (as a ghost) and also her daughter Catherine's. It's not that i think that the writing is on par with Emily Brontë or anything but somehow the author has succesfully matched the tone and mood of the original book. And what's more, it perfectly embodies Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights it's actually insane tbh. 4.5 ⭐
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