Just Another Final Girl Review (Brittany) Levely-Connolly’s Reviews > Lowfield > Status Update

Small Town cult that is discussed in book-practice of father’s and brother’s raping their daughters. These women got pregnant and gave birth to genetically deformed children - known as the Lowfield look

Trigger warning: incest and rape and abortions all huge parts of this book

Cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft

Danny MacPherson and the selling of the house

Appearing out of nowhere, uninvited and unknown stranger to tell Riley that once he is done fixing up the house he must sell it. Weirdly tells him that he needs to be careful because “This isn’t who you really are.”
Leading to Riley’s admission that
“…who I really am has been in doubt for longer than I can bring myself to remember…”

Liking book a lot more than I thought I would
House seems to be playing tricks on him
Like showing him hanging grandfather shadows, painting gables and topsoil of garden appareajng and mold disappearing

Gothic trope Protag is haunted by the shame of his past inactions, breakdown of his marriage, affair and death of colleagues

Is an RCMP who’s off duty on long term sick leave
Mistress in jail for shooting his fellow officers and wife is divorced him
PTSD and insomnia, social anxiety

Odd coincidences between Riley Fuller and his great grandfather by the same name. Both moved into home on same day and both journaling about both the building/ Reno process and moving in

Riley moved to PEI because he inherited Applegarth from his grandfather. It is an isolated, delapitated and abandoned Victorian manse. His grandfather lived there in 1930s, installed plumbing as well as nob and tube wiring.
Joke that if he moved in he would become ‘…Riley of Red Gables…’

Genre
Canadian horror - PEI island setting and author is Canadian
Historical fiction-1995
Gen adult fiction
Gothic

Protag Riley
Recently divorced male insomniac
Just moved from New Brunswick to the Island
Introvert

Physical arc book sent in mail

Genre:
Canadian horror
Cosmic horror