Elizabeth Brooks’ debut novel,
The Orphan of Salt Winds, was hailed by BuzzFeed as “evocative, gothic, and utterly transportive.” She grew up in Chester, England, graduated from Cambridge University, and resides on the Isle of Man with her husband and two children.
Brooks’ new novel is
The Whispering House.
At CrimeReads she tagged twelve gothic novels that explore the deepest darkest possibilities of sibling relationships, including:
The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield (2006)
Twins are intriguing. Who (among non-twins) hasn’t wondered what it would be like to grow up alongside someone so similar yet so separate? 
Would it be bolstering? Constricting? A blessing? A curse? Faced with your twin, would you be facing your opposite or your mirror-image, or some uncanny combination of the two? No wonder gothic mysteries, from Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher onwards, have been fascinated by the dramatic potential of twin-hood. In Diane Setterfield’s novel, calm twin, Emmeline and violent twin, Adeline are presented as two halves of a whole. Together they form an eerie unit, subject to its own laws and repellent to outsiders.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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