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Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Some good, some bad. Individual ratings below!😎


Disappearances: 3.5/5. More like disappointing. Feel like she dropped the ball on this one.😿

The Old Nurse’s Story: 5/5. Gripping tale, pretty good stuff. 🧙‍♀�

The Squire’s Story: 3/5. I don’t get it. Why was it included? 🧐

The Poor Clare: 4/5. It’s a banger. And a soap opera! 💃

The Doom of the Griffiths: 2/5. Just� no. Why does the author spend 5 pages describing the interior of a house? 🏠

Lois the Witch: 1.5/5. Too much talk of “Red Savages� for my liking. DNF 🤦

The Crooked Branch: 1/5. Cousins should not date. Cousins should not mate. That is just weird. It’s a no for me. 🙅‍♂�

Curious, if True: 0.5/5. DNF’d at the point the author explains how poor people are gross. Real quote: “what can be more ungenteel than poverty�??? 👨🏻‍�

The Grey Woman: 4/5. Nice domestic horror, although I didn’t find the plot twists to be that cool, and the story’s kinda banking on you doing so. 🤷


While the average rating I gave a story was 2.3, I’m rounding up to a 3. Maybe I have Stockholm Syndrome because I try to remember the good times with this book even though they were sparse! 😹
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Reading Progress

September 13, 2024 – Shelved
September 13, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read
September 13, 2024 – Shelved as: gothic-horror
March 3, 2025 – Started Reading
March 5, 2025 –
63.0% "😎"
March 5, 2025 – Shelved as: garbage-bin
March 5, 2025 – Finished Reading

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