Found: the ultimate Gothic

[rachelmanija]

Kit wouldn't rest until she exorcised the spirits of her scornful ancestors from the mammoth house which she now possessed. Or so she thought, until the house strangely began to take possession of her. In the mysterious attics which spread like tentacles over the roof, legends of the past came to life. Somewhere there lurked what remained of her lost, unrequited love, and he was coming to claim her kin.

-- Back cover of Trelawny, by Isabelle Holland.

Oh boy oh boy, this is going to be great!

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

No, wait, I've got it: her ancestors lived in a mammoth-house, so logically they must be mammoths. Therefore the heroine is at least part-mammoth, or perhaps an elephant, depending on how far back the mammoths were. This may be a new departure in gothic novels.

Perhaps the legends of the past involve some sort of prehistoric zookeeper.

(Also, I've just noticed that house apparently has its attics above the roof. Evidently when they turned into tentacles they crawled out of the chimneys, or something.)