Dearest Future Ghost,
I’m Alys Arden, bestselling author of Gothic fiction.
Before my eternal time to haunt the French Quarter streets, I’m here, writing Attic Letters your enjoyment and my sanity. This writing may be in the form of spells to protect your home, essays on the Gothic condition, snippets from my upcoming novels, The Casquette Girls bonus content, or recipes that feature bleeding hearts.
I have a Penny Dreadful planned to serialize here on Substack for paid subscribers, but for now, everything is free.
If you are obsessed with Shelley (Mary… or I suppose the other one, too), del Toro, attics, crows, Victorian mourning customs, the brothers Grimm, stregheria, Italian folk magic, the Mediterranean Gothic, New Orleans history, or you just like sitting around the cauldron—you’re in the right place. Benvenuto.
“I busied myself to think of a story,—a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.” —Mary Shelley’s 1831 Introduction to the revised edition of Frankenstein
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