With her previous works Blood on Her Tongue and My Darling Dreadful Thing, Yana van Vain has quickly become one of my favorite gothic authors. With each passing book that she writes and has published, she is feeling more and more like a modern-day Shirley Jackson or Daphne du Maurier.
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The Incredible World of Religious Horror
I feel like I was able to indulge in so much religious introspection while reading this book that it just It just has not left my mind.
With her previous works Blood on Her Tongue and My Darling Dreadful Thing, Yana van Vain has quickly become one of my favorite gothic authors. With each passing book that she writes and has published, she is feeling more and more like a modern-day Shirley Jackson or Daphne du Maurier.

