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Incredibly well crafted, but you can smell some ick coming off it.

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”

"A terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what must have happened if Raymond Chandler had written The Exorcist is as close as I can come." - Stephen King

So good.

It might be too that the curtain had not been drawn from the window since some preceding summer, and if one crossed there now and pulled them aside, opening the creaking shutters, a dead moth who had been imprisoned behind them for many months would fall to the carpet and lie there, beside a forgotten pin, and a dried leaf blown there before the windows were closed for the last time.

Gooey, squishy, pulpy fun.

When I opened my eyes we were by a bend in the road, and a peasant girl in a black shawl waved to us; I can see her now, her dusty skirt, her gleaming, friendly smile, and in a second we had passed the bend and could see her no more. Already she belonged to the past, she was only a memory.

Dammmmmn. Even the dog's giving her the stink eye.

He did not notice, every day, as I did, the blind gaze of the old dog in its basket in the library, who lifted its head when it heard my footstep, the footstep of a woman, and sniffing the air drooped its head again, because I was not the one she sought.

And just like that I am now a Gothic romance reader.

That cover looked scifi, but this is like a clever sword and sorcery d&d campaign set in a Lovecraftian world. Looks like I'll be reading more. I had to look to see if the sci-fi emblem was on the spine, but it actually has a "horror" stamp.